Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle' Gray Catbird Eggs - Second Brood Rosa Rugosa Thermopsis villosa and White Birch before Walnut Hill Chipping Sparrow in Nest Chipping Sparrow Eggs Rosa Virginiana Female Indigo Bunting and Nestlings in a Peony! Inidgo Bunting Nestlings - More on these later on. Tree Swallow Nestling Nearly Fledged Hydrangea macrophylla 'Nikko Blue' Looking through Middle Gardens and Tree Swallow Nestbox towards Mount … [Read more...] about Glimpses of North and Middle Garden Walkabouts
Watery Constellations Connections and American Redstart
Down into the woods rivulets overflowing forming round bubbles Water orbs suspend acrobats on woven webs beauty in free fall Warming trends are real inspiring thought and action scarcity and melt Millions go without precious drops essential drink huge global crisis Flashes of color American Redstarts flit bright ideas grow How can we all help all life depends on water heart and mind open Water flows freely and abundantly here . . . from the sky and in our Flower Hill Farm woodlands. … [Read more...] about Watery Constellations Connections and American Redstart
Woven Tapestries of Flora and Fauna Overcast and Bright
Apple tree where Robins rear their young. Empty Catbird nest Catbird fledgling Soft single roses please most in simplicity garden tapestries Robin in earnest through rain and sun weaving cup holding fragile young Always a mouthful detritus and twigs for walls upon apple branch Squealing worms for all clamorous hunger needs met endless work for mom Abandoning nests looking in the shrubberies fledglings stand alert Catbirds build anew no empty nest syndrome … [Read more...] about Woven Tapestries of Flora and Fauna Overcast and Bright
June Wildflowers for ‘National Pollinator Week’
Twelve-spotted Skimmer Through years of labor fields reclaim flower power wild and native grow Pollinators thrive flying low through drifts of blooms cups await their probe All must be on guard closer examination reveals hidden foes She loves me loves not camouflage in petals white daisy death comes quick Intricate seeds form taking flight into landscapes promising return Beyond blooming life scattering to 'the four winds' onward odyssey 'National … [Read more...] about June Wildflowers for ‘National Pollinator Week’
