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AT HOME WITH THE RED-BELLIED WOODPECKERS
They are as married as woodpeckers can be. These are our Red-Bellied Woodpeckers. They don’t have a red belly except in the most distant way, but there’s already a red-headed woodpecker, so they became red-bellied. They have a nest in… Read More ›
EARTH DAY AND SHARING
SHARE YOUR WORLD & BE KIND TO EARTH! 4-26-2022 With all of the mess going on across the world, I still think trying to get our planet healthy — for us — should be our number one priority. It isn’t… Read More ›
EVIL SQUIRREL WITH WALT KELLY – AFTER EARTH DAY 2022
It was Earth Day yesterday. I remember the very first Earth Day, how proud we were that we had “done something.” Well, we didn’t really do much. Walt Kelly said: The enemy hasn’t changed. It’s still us and until we… Read More ›
THE VIEW: A PHOTO A WEEK CHALLENGE
A Photo a Week Challenge: View Through the front window, the back window, and the top of a very tall building along the wharf in Boston.
FOTD – AUTUMN BRILLIANCE – PART I
FOTD – October 16 – Autumn Leaves I muct admit I didn’t realize I’d done this post twice. That’s what you get when you have such an abundance of pictures, I guess. I got lost in the sorting. October makes me… Read More ›
FOTD – AUTUMN BRILLIANCE – PART II
FOTD – October 16 – Autumn Brilliance I was going to post this tomorrow, but I have so many pictures, I figured maybe I better put them up now because there are so many more already in folders — and more… Read More ›
AN INTIMATE CONTACT WITH NATURE
“A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.”
GREENING OF THE OAK TREES
I said sometimes around the second week in May, the oaks would grow leaves and suddenly, it would be spring? Last night, the oak trees went green. When I looked out the window this morning, spring had arrived.
A PEOPLIZED WORLD
Once upon a time — not all that long ago — most of North American was “open” space. There was room for predators. Room for herds of antelope, bison, deer and elk. Wild goats lived in the mountains with mountain… Read More ›
BIRDS OF ODD AND ORANGE FEATHERS WITH BABIES
This is the way he looked last week. I’m still wondering if we are breeding a new kind of Cardinal here in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. Yesterday, I met the lady of the family and today, the babies showed up. Yes, orange… Read More ›
ALWAYS AUTUMN
Fandango’s Dog Days of August #28: LOVING AUTUMN New England has always been the best place in the world to see the colors of Autumn. We have always had “bad” autumnal years. There can be too much rain or an… Read More ›
LIVING IN THE WILDERNESS? – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP SATURDAY: WILDERNESS The area in which we live is definitely rural, but I never considered it wilderness until suddenly, after 20 years of receiving packages from every known delivery service, we can’t be found. We have disappeared. We get… Read More ›
LINES IN THE WOODSHED – Garry Armstrong
The Lines in the Old Woodshed It’s coming down before the winter comes. Its roof is about ready to cave in. One big snow, and it will bring itself down. That would make a terrible mess, so it makes more… Read More ›
FOREST LIFE WHEN SPRING HAS COME – Marilyn Armstrong
OH FOREST PRIMEVAL I laughed when Ellin wrote that the weather is perfect for outside. “Not too hot, not too cold, and the bugs aren’t in full attack mode.” Or something to that effect. People who don’t live here don’t… Read More ›
APPROACHING EARTH DAY WITH THE SWANS – Marilyn Armstrong
Usually, when I publish pictures of swans, I clean up the water, but these are the originals … the way the photographs looked before clearing out the rubbish. As we again approach America’s “Earth Day,” I find myself ready to… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 