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The Salvia and marigolds are still blooming and the honeybees and bumblebees are still coming around. We are supposed to have 20’s at night next week and snow Monday, that will finish the last of the flowers. I will miss them. 🐝 #nature #autumnflowers #itsalmostover
November 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The Salvia and marigolds are still blooming and the honeybees and bumblebees are still coming around. We are supposed to have 20’s at night next week and snow Monday, that will finish the last of the flowers. I will miss them. 🐝 #nature #autumnflowers #itsalmostover
Everything you mentioned are my favorites also. I so look forward to Fall. Cleaning out the garden, planting my garlic, displaying the pumpkins I grew. Canning the last of the green beans and waiting for the first frost. Gathering hickory nuts and pecans from our trees. Fires in the evenings.
October 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Everything you mentioned are my favorites also. I so look forward to Fall. Cleaning out the garden, planting my garlic, displaying the pumpkins I grew. Canning the last of the green beans and waiting for the first frost. Gathering hickory nuts and pecans from our trees. Fires in the evenings.
There’s something about an insect that can turn its head when you approach, and you KNOW it is looking at you. I love these praying mantis. #nature #insectsofbluesky #prayingmantisofbluesky
October 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
There’s something about an insect that can turn its head when you approach, and you KNOW it is looking at you. I love these praying mantis. #nature #insectsofbluesky #prayingmantisofbluesky
Antennaria, pussytoes, with American Painted Lady caterpillars. 🥰 These are this years cats. #nature #ButterflyLarvae #AmericanPaintedLady
August 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Antennaria, pussytoes, with American Painted Lady caterpillars. 🥰 These are this years cats. #nature #ButterflyLarvae #AmericanPaintedLady
I wonder how many times I’ve walked by this now empty-looking cocoon. (This wire cage is around an apple tree, I started it from an apple that is not a hybrid) There are pussytoes, Antennaria, growing close by. I found an American Painted Lady cat on them in 2023. #nature #butterflycocoons
August 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I wonder how many times I’ve walked by this now empty-looking cocoon. (This wire cage is around an apple tree, I started it from an apple that is not a hybrid) There are pussytoes, Antennaria, growing close by. I found an American Painted Lady cat on them in 2023. #nature #butterflycocoons
Some random things. Yesterday I was hauling some mulch to the wildflower area and uncovered a chicken egg that had been stashed away. No, we do not have chickens, the neighbors do tho. I left it there in case the culprit comes back for it.
August 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Some random things. Yesterday I was hauling some mulch to the wildflower area and uncovered a chicken egg that had been stashed away. No, we do not have chickens, the neighbors do tho. I left it there in case the culprit comes back for it.
Every year, I go around our property digging out tree seedlings. We have different types of nut trees, and squirrels being squirrels, are constantly burying nuts everywhere. Yest, I found a seedling I didn’t expect to find and I think I will transplant it out into the yard, it is a Hackberry.
August 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Every year, I go around our property digging out tree seedlings. We have different types of nut trees, and squirrels being squirrels, are constantly burying nuts everywhere. Yest, I found a seedling I didn’t expect to find and I think I will transplant it out into the yard, it is a Hackberry.
Sharks on the menu at Applebees! This must be an old photo they used @bruceshark.bsky.social Look at you swimming!
August 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Sharks on the menu at Applebees! This must be an old photo they used @bruceshark.bsky.social Look at you swimming!
Been waiting for this tomato to ripen, had it penciled in for BLTs. I started looking and all the almost-ripe Romas were gone also. Then, deer tracks. I have since sprinkled cayenne pepper on the tomato plants and the beans, which they also tried. #gardening #forestdemoncows
#growyourownfood
#growyourownfood
August 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Been waiting for this tomato to ripen, had it penciled in for BLTs. I started looking and all the almost-ripe Romas were gone also. Then, deer tracks. I have since sprinkled cayenne pepper on the tomato plants and the beans, which they also tried. #gardening #forestdemoncows
#growyourownfood
#growyourownfood
A red spotted purple butterfly was busy laying eggs on a peach tree today. This egg is about 10 min old. It would land on a leaf and then back down to the tip of the leaf to lay an egg. #nature #redspottedpurple #butterflies
August 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A red spotted purple butterfly was busy laying eggs on a peach tree today. This egg is about 10 min old. It would land on a leaf and then back down to the tip of the leaf to lay an egg. #nature #redspottedpurple #butterflies
Silly dog. 🥴😆
August 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Silly dog. 🥴😆
This is the second ‘bloom’ of brightly colored fungi next to an old Chinese Chestnut stump. The SEEK app ID says Eastern Jack O’Lantern. Poisonous. Also, this wasp was visiting the swamp milkweed yesterday. I’m having a time trying to identify it. #nature #fungi #insectThursday
August 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is the second ‘bloom’ of brightly colored fungi next to an old Chinese Chestnut stump. The SEEK app ID says Eastern Jack O’Lantern. Poisonous. Also, this wasp was visiting the swamp milkweed yesterday. I’m having a time trying to identify it. #nature #fungi #insectThursday
Oh darn it! I missed #woodfrogwednesday! Yesterday I was trying to get the yard mowed before today’s rains came along and there were so many little, 1” long or so, wood frog youngsters everywhere. 🥰
July 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Oh darn it! I missed #woodfrogwednesday! Yesterday I was trying to get the yard mowed before today’s rains came along and there were so many little, 1” long or so, wood frog youngsters everywhere. 🥰
Crocosmia, I could see this blooming from the deck yesterday. I bought this one, can’t think of the variety right now, and Lucifer a few years ago. The red Lucifer already finished blooming last week. I’m rather pleased that this one is a bit later. #gardening #blooms #crocosmia
July 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Crocosmia, I could see this blooming from the deck yesterday. I bought this one, can’t think of the variety right now, and Lucifer a few years ago. The red Lucifer already finished blooming last week. I’m rather pleased that this one is a bit later. #gardening #blooms #crocosmia
I can’t decide which one is my favorite! 🤫 Jumping spiders are comical to me, they seem to turn to look at you when you get close.
Tiger beetles are ferocious predators. I hope to see a larvae someday.
Tiger beetles are ferocious predators. I hope to see a larvae someday.
July 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I can’t decide which one is my favorite! 🤫 Jumping spiders are comical to me, they seem to turn to look at you when you get close.
Tiger beetles are ferocious predators. I hope to see a larvae someday.
Tiger beetles are ferocious predators. I hope to see a larvae someday.
I happened on a very curious caterpillar this afternoon. If it hadn’t been moving, I wouldn’t have noticed it. I think it may be Nematocampa resistaria or a Horned Spanworm. It seems to be suspended by silk or …? The plant it is on is Queen Ann’s Lace. #nature #caterpillars #gardening
July 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I happened on a very curious caterpillar this afternoon. If it hadn’t been moving, I wouldn’t have noticed it. I think it may be Nematocampa resistaria or a Horned Spanworm. It seems to be suspended by silk or …? The plant it is on is Queen Ann’s Lace. #nature #caterpillars #gardening
Zebra Swallowtail in all it beautiful stripey-ness. This is the first one I’ve seen in more than 10 years. 🦓🦋 I hope it comes back, we have plenty of pawpaws for little caterpillars. #nature #zebraswallowtailsofbluesky #lantana
July 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Zebra Swallowtail in all it beautiful stripey-ness. This is the first one I’ve seen in more than 10 years. 🦓🦋 I hope it comes back, we have plenty of pawpaws for little caterpillars. #nature #zebraswallowtailsofbluesky #lantana
In the video, there are glimpses of silk behind the spider as it sneaks up on this tiny fly-like insect.
July 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
In the video, there are glimpses of silk behind the spider as it sneaks up on this tiny fly-like insect.
Each morning, unless it is raining I have coffee on the deck. It is a nice change to slow way down and watch spiders. Two different jumpers on 2 different mornings.
July 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Each morning, unless it is raining I have coffee on the deck. It is a nice change to slow way down and watch spiders. Two different jumpers on 2 different mornings.
Some blooms from the wildflower garden, it’s def a work in progress. Rattlesnake master, Culver’s root. The last - I don’t remember any longer. They have changed over the years, different variations on the colors and where they occur. #nature #nativewildflowers
July 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Some blooms from the wildflower garden, it’s def a work in progress. Rattlesnake master, Culver’s root. The last - I don’t remember any longer. They have changed over the years, different variations on the colors and where they occur. #nature #nativewildflowers
Moth cocoon, maybe cecropia? It is about 4” long. When do these moths generally emerge? I have been patiently waiting since mid-May. #nature #cecropiamoths
July 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Moth cocoon, maybe cecropia? It is about 4” long. When do these moths generally emerge? I have been patiently waiting since mid-May. #nature #cecropiamoths
I was feeding mosquitoes, which are getting numerous 😕, to this daddy long legs this morning. I killed three and laid them on the deck railing, it ate all three. #nature #insectsofbluesky
July 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I was feeding mosquitoes, which are getting numerous 😕, to this daddy long legs this morning. I killed three and laid them on the deck railing, it ate all three. #nature #insectsofbluesky
