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Little Known Fact Series #2: The Green Flash
Some months ago I started on occasional series called Little Known Facts. It might not be a series yet, because there has been one, and only one, post to it. It was back in July and called, Little Known Fact Series #1: The Wisconsin Connection to the Niagara Escarpment. My aim with this series is…
Silent Sunday: Butterflies of Summer 2018
It’s Apple Harvest Time!
September Evenings Last night my husband and I picked apples. We didn’t go anywhere, just our front yard! Mainly, we have Cortland’s this year. We have enough to make pies and cider. Tomorrow, we’ll host a group of friends for what is becoming an annual cider making party. Did you know it takes one five…
Life: It’s All About Perspective
Over the course of the last year, I’ve done a great deal of soul-searching. I have come to the following conclusion. Life is all about perspective. It is filled with different ways to look at things. And choosing to look at things one way, as opposed to another influences your happiness. It’s a matter of…
The Circle of Life in a Seed Head
Twice in the last week, I visited the school garden which I have been in charge of caring for since last October. I’ve been deadheading and weeding, alone and with a friend, to make the gardens presentable for the school open house, which is this evening. When I planted with students this past May, I told…
Raising Monarchs Part IV: Mid-August
Periodically this summer I have been posting on my progress with raising monarch butterflies this season. Part I: Silent Sunday: Raising Monarchs Mid June Photo only Post Part II: Mid July Part III: Early August It is the 15th year I’ve raised monarchs and, as an Environmental Educator, I am active in other aspects of…
The Joys in One’s Own Garden
Today was intended to be a day to finish a homework assignment and a paper, both due tomorrow. But, my husband awoke with other intentions. He was going to pick pears off of our trees that have suffered this season and attempt to dehydrate them. They are delicious, albeit very small. I was frank, bluntly…
Signs of Summer: Flowers & Sunsets
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Wonder
This photograph definitely was accompanied by a state of wonder! It was taken Christmas Morning, 2015, as the sun rose over the clouds at daybreak on Mt. Haleakala, a volcano on the island of Maui. We were at the summit with a few hundred other TOGs and families. We were blessed with a clear morning,…