A no fuss birdhouse. This photo was taken at our home in Bethesda on June 29, 2014, through our dining room window. I have a staghorn fern, a tropical plant, that I put outside each summer. I’ve still got it, and…
I’ve published this before, but hope you all don’t mind seeing it again. This photo was taken December 3, 2001, in my Maryland back yard. And no, it’s not photoshopped, it’s not AI, etc. Well, maybe cropped a little…
Snow in the Washington, DC area! Alert the Press! Rest assured, the Press has been alerted and we out here in snowless (at least at our house) Wisconsin know all about your recent snowfall. This is a good time to…
Just because they aren’t flying around now because it’s winter doesn’t mean that we should forget about our pollinators. Gardeners are coming around to the idea of leaving some debris in place overwinter (for example: allowing fallen tree leaves…
Happy Thanksgiving Out here in Wisconsin we have a lot of wild turkeys. Here is part of a group of a dozen well-fed wild turkeys at my sister-in-law Nancy’s bird feeder in central Wisconsin. We see them regularly here in…
Grainy photo of the week. Have you ever wondered what’s walking around your yard at night? I’m probably out of date as I don’t have any of those smart apps connected to cameras all around the house, but back in…
When we lived in Maryland, I had a pond in the backyard, with goldfish. In the early spring before the trees leafed out, we would get an occasional visit from a great blue heron that probably saw the sun glinting…
Each June, when our daylilies start to bloom, it begins. The never-ending struggle between the dear deer that passes through each night and my husband. Each morning, he goes out to snap off the spent blooms and comes in to…
Watching hummingbirds flit around my garden is a daily delight. But did you know these little wonders do more than just look pretty?
Sometimes sitting down with your grandchild to watch a special show that they say is just great, ends up being just that.
Last week, while sitting outside with my husband, I saw bluebirds flying every which way. For weeks now, they have been staking out their nest boxes and fighting off the House Sparrows, or as some call them, English Sparrows. Either way, those sparrows are pretty mean.
Over a thousand years ago, Native Americans built effigy mounds, and many of these are located in Wisconsin. These “Indian Mounds” as we called them when I was growing up here were large earthen mounds in the shapes of animals…