Earth Day 2022 Isn’t Every Day, Earth Day? We’ve lived on this planet for eons. Home… For humans, For animals, For plants. For millions, and billions, of species Before our eyes many are disappearing At alarming rates But, since YOU go on, YOU forget the others that have gone. Our lives are short but collectively…
Climate
Cardinal Story
We are fortunate to live in an area with many species of birds. There are majestic raptors like the hawks, eagles, and owls we regularly see gliding over the prairies and dry creek beds with an eye out for a rodent meal. Then, there are the songbirds. Over the years I’ve started to love the…
Days of the Week: Thursday and Friday
Due to writers and authors from all over the world participating in Poetry Friday, which you can read about here, with the host’s link often going live on Thursday afternoon or evening. I am NEVER ready for this. Never! I usually do not think of myself as a literal person but in this case, I…
Silent Sunday: Hawaiian Plants and Trees
Today is Silent Sunday. On this day each week, I post photographs of my own on a theme of my choosing. I love taking photos of nature, plants, and landscapes. Enjoy! There is no permission to duplicate these photos in any means without my express permission.
Snow: It’s All Relative…
There’s snow and then, there’s SNOW! Yesterday, a winter storm was forecast for a large area of the midwest, including the region of Wisconsin in which we live. Thursday night, the night before the storm was to hit, and without any flakes yet flying, some outlying rural districts had pre-emptively closed school for the next…
Silent Sunday: Petrified Forest National Park
Slice of Life Tuesday: Giant Saguaros & Saguaro National Park
We are still on our national park tour of the Southwest. We’ve gone from Arches to the Grand Canyon to Sedona to Tucson so far. Today, we travel to the Petrified Forest National Park, completing the three parks that are in Arizona. The last two days have been spent exploring Saguaro National Park, outside of…
Spring in October? Not Good!
Yesterday, while walking with a friend, we noticed lilacs blooming. When we got back to my house, we noticed a new bloom on my clematis. It was October 1st! On social media, over the last several weeks, there have been numerous reports of spring blooming shrubs and plants blooming again. While their scent and their…
The Power of Nature
Nature is powerful! If you pay any attention to the world around you or to the news, you already know this. If nature’s power were not enough, we see that nature is changing because climate is changing. Wildfires rage in the western United States. Floods that used to occur once every decade are now occurring…