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Our Little Raised Bed Garden
Our friend Tim Wrona created a wonderful raised bed vegetable garden in early April in our back yard. Here’s a before and after picture. Pretty soon the tomato plants will fill those four tall tomato cages and the peas and pole beans and cucumbers and zucchini will fill up that lattice work in the…
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Baby Praying Mantis on a Japanese Maple Leaf (Click Image for Fuller View)
A few weeks ago I let go three little egg sacs full of baby praying mantises in the front and side yards. I hadn’t seen any of the babies since that day until today when I saw a whole slew of them on our Japanese Maple Tree. They are the tiniest little things but…
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The Fox and the Woodpecker are Two Contest Finalists This Month! (Click Fox to see eyebrows)
Fox with Expressive Eyebrows The Pileated Woodpecker
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I Am Not Your Mom!
These little ducklings were convinced I was their mom. Every time I tried to take a picture they would run towards me. Then I would get up run away from them, turn around and try to get their picture, and before I could get them in focus there they were in hot pursuit. Must…
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I Figured Out What Bug This is. It is a baby Miridae. Cool or What!!
This just happens to be a Nymph Leptopterna Dolabrata in the Family of True Bugs called Miridae
