Phenology Report Mid August 2018

Phenology Report Mid August 2018

Phenology Report Mid August 2018 This morning as the world began to lighten, I looked out the window. While sipping my morning cup of tea and welcoming the day, I couldn’t decide if it would dawn clear or cloudy. Then the orange circle of the sun popped up through the...
Happy Moth Week!

Happy Moth Week!

Happy Moth Week! In honor of moth week, I’ve put up a moth page in the species accounts section of this site. This post contains affiliate links. That means that if you follow a link and make a purchase, I receive a smallportion of that purchase at no extra cost to...
Loving the Spring Snow!

Loving the Spring Snow!

Loving the Spring Snow! It’s snowing again this morning and I love it. I know, most everyone is really tired of the snow, but honestly, I think these last snows of winter are as magical as the first ones. We have the “all’s well with the world” huge flakes coming down...
Bring more nature into your everyday life

Bring more nature into your everyday life

Bring more nature into your everyday life The other morning my Mom shared with me a moment she took from her day to watch the Northern flickers at the Kestrel box that sits outside our house right outside some tinted windows upstairs that makes viewing fairly easy...
Waiting for Spring

Waiting for Spring

Waiting for Spring The other day while talking with a friend, she mentioned she’s looking forward to this spring. I understand that – ready to “get to the good stuff” – but this is precisely one reason I started a phenology journal. For so long it seemed that one...
Favorite Photos: A slice of July 2017

Favorite Photos: A slice of July 2017

Favorite Photos: A slice of July 2017 July is always busy, but the busier we all get, the more we need a way to calm and center ourselves regularly. For me, this simply takes a bit of time in nature – just time to stop and be. Even just working on photos taken just...