Because I haven't posted enough about BONES on this account... fun fact: I've been cleaning, collecting, articulating skeletons for over 10 years now.

Here's a juvenile coyote skeleton, she was tragically hit by a car last summer...

#art #artist #bones #coyote #morbid #skull #skeleton #oddities

First good bumblebee photo of the season! Unfortunately, she wasn't foraging on one of my native plants, (that's Creeping Charlie which snuck into the back lawn somehow) but at least she appeared to be very healthy.

#bees #bumblebee #bombusimpatiens #invasiveplants #nature #pollinators #wildlife

Something positive! My Desmodium canadense seedlings are looking amazing!! Can't wait to get these babies in the ground...

#bees #nativeplants #pollinatorgarden #seeds #wintersow #green

I am so fn excited for the next season of rewilding our yard! Here's a shot of Eastern prickly pear, Opuntia humifusa, growing happily amongst a shabby patch of turfgrass. 6.25.2024

#cactus #flowers #gardening #nativeplants #rewild

Something positive - my Desmodium canadense seedlings (babies 🌱) are 1 month old today!

#nativeplants #bees #goodnews #gardening #resistancegarden #wildlife

Some good news, my Desmodium canadense seedlings are looking happy in their low tech winter sowing set up....

#nativeplants #pollinatorgarden #ecology #bees

Don't mind the pavement in the background. Patchy front lawns and "hell strips" are ideal for small, beginner friendly pollinator gardens.

This female striped sweat bee, Agapostemon virescens, is nourished by our Echinacea planting.
#animals #bees #flowers #garden #nature #pollinatorgarden

Our front lawn pollinator pathway, same perspective as yesterday's post. Photo taken July 2024... we had a lot of annual Fleabane volunteers last year.

#bees #climatechange #garden #ecology #entomology #nature #milkweed #nativeplants #naturalyard #rewild #sustainability #homegrownnationalpark

Our humble little front yard "pollinator pathway", asleep for the winter

#bees #entomology #ecologicallandscape #garden #pollinators #pollinatorpathway #snow #winter #wildlife #homegrownnationalpark

My Eastern prickly pear, Opuntia humifusa, has been loving and expanding on its home (our front lawn) since it was first installed in May 2021

#cactus #plants #Opuntia #ecologicallandscape #rewild #naturalyard #killyourlawn

Perks of being seasonal help at the local garden center

#pollinators #monarchbutterfly #nature #wildlife

A little less lawn this year...

#bumblebee #bees #climatechange #garden #sunflowers #killyourlawn #rewild

*makes 1st post on a new platform*

It's a picture of my #cat Tucker