Showing posts with label nature photo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature photo. Show all posts
Friday, May 7, 2021

I Do Wrong, and Then I Do Right

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A plump bumblebee buzzes bounces all day in front of my door every spring and summer, upward and down, and then moving laterally, persistent...
Monday, May 3, 2021

A Mint

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Wild mint is fun to find and harvest. There's a type that's poisonous, with white flowers on tall stems, but roll a stem between you...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

Jack's Pulpit

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Yesterday I led a quick guest tour of the property, including Waterfall #1, Waterfall #5, and "the beach." Sloshing our way up a r...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Bluebells by the Acre

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Did you want to see bluebells growing in their native sort-of-swampy habitat, during the peak of blooming? Me too. Today I took happy advant...
Monday, April 12, 2021

Good Morel Character

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If you live around here -- east central Missouri or thereabouts -- get out and go looking, because now, now, now is the one week of the year...
Wednesday, March 3, 2021

They Can, I Can't.

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Last week 0 degrees. This week 70. That's better than the other way around. Anytime I try to do something, I just can't. Have to go ...
Friday, February 5, 2021

Still Life

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This rare (of course!) neurological thing lets me walk and sit just fine but my legs tremor when standing and they demand I lean on somethin...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

My Retirement Party

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I cannot resist a sign saying "Pond" with an arrow pointing the way; "pond" is one of my favorite words. It snowed yest...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

On the Beach

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Never cared for taking almost all my clothes off by the waterside, joining a bunch of strangers similarly undressed and all either yelling o...
Friday, December 4, 2020

The War On Shrubs

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Armed with the lopper I cut through thickets of invasive bush honeysuckle , starting with the path to the creek (wanted to take a friend the...
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Sassafras Magic and Lore

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Pluck the mitten-shaped leaves from the sassafras tree, then snap their stems and inhale the warm spicy sweetness. Once a guest here dug up...
Saturday, July 25, 2020

Why Hollyhocks Are Old-Fashioned Flowers

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"Old-fashioned beauty," "old-fashioned Southern favorite," "definitive old-fashioned garden plant" -- why,...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Bunny 2020

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This bunny is in its Eden. Always as the sun sets, a couple of bunnies enjoy dining on the part of the lawn kept mown. The day had been on...
Sunday, June 21, 2020

Territory

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It's a young turtle if its shell is vividly and clearly painted and shines, and surely a young one if it's crossing a road, likely...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Violets on Earth

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I have not much to say today that springtime can't say for me. First, April has had numerous sunless days. After several sunless days, t...
Monday, September 23, 2019

Muscling Up

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"You start losing muscle mass in your 30s," the senior-yoga-class instructor told our class, "and lose 10 percent more ever...
Sunday, September 22, 2019

Elegy for a Shagbark Hickory

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Missouri's eastern forests are oak-hickory forests and the trees on occasion die and fall, or get struck by lightning (you'll know...
Saturday, August 31, 2019

August Night, September Morning

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About three days ago a stony chill manifested in the atmosphere, day and night, regardless of temperature. It introduces the change of sea...
Sunday, August 25, 2019

What I Did on Summer Vacation

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Things are different up north. So my sister and brother-in-law unexpectedly agreed to come with me "up north" -- that's al...
Friday, August 2, 2019

"July 29, 2019"

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The previous entry discusses a painting titled "July 25, 1949" and I couldn't imagine its landscape, with that spit of land...