First the workplace, nothing but the best … Mariposa Lily … and then the worker. Just because a flower is a worksite, doesn’t mean you have to dress down. Beautiful Furry Bee […]
Dressing Up for Work
Pollination Dance
When one insect …. … crawls, buzzed on nectar … …out of a mariposa lily and flies off to the next flower … Zebra Wasp Takes Wing … another insect that was over […]
Temporal Photography … With Cool Insects!
I was reading Prefix, a classy Canadian photo magazine, and there it was: a discussion of photography that wasn’t locked in time, but which presented lengthy images of particular views, rather than ones at […]
Don’t, Just Don’t!
I mean, don’t cut into a hill on the syncline side of the mountains. The water leaks out, and then ……mosquitoes. See these guys? Don’t come back tomorrow, I say. Sheesh.
June 24 And Summer Is So Over
Well, either that or it means nothing here in the grasslands of the North American North West. Beautiful, though.The way it busts up concrete is also beautiful, don’t you think?
Abandoning Wildness
Mourning Cloak drinking at the mud hole (leaking pipe)… Western Swallowtail in the vetch (feral forage crop). Old one at the watering hole (irrigation leakage and trail flood.) Things have come […]
After You Leave the Nest, What Then? Build a New Nest!
So, you get kicked out of the nest, right? Luckily, there are cherry trees. You can hide. Robin Fledgling Without a Nest to Go To You can wait there for the world […]
Human and Inhuman Environments
Where humans became human. Bella Vista Hills Imagine living here. It’s possible. Where humans became inhuman. Vernon Now, imagine living here. The temptation to pave the Bella Vista creek bed above would […]
How to Ensure a Sustainable Food Supply
Here’s how to grow tomatoes using plastic and hydroponic fertilizer. After harvest, this plastic goes to the landfill. Why, you may ask? To get a jump on the season, without having to […]
Masked Hunter
The bug from my shed has a name and a story. It’s a masked hunter. It picks up dust bunnies and carries them around. No lie. Read about it here. Thanks to all […]
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