There I was sun-dappled and slaving away outside on the laptop, the tracks of a CD of Spanish guitar music filling the space with sound from the two wireless outdoor faux-rock speakers I’m so glad I bought last week. Two cats were napping opposite me in patio chairs and a drowsy Ranger dog snoozed at …
Wiping up the counter after doing the dishes yesterday morning, one could almost hear the cartoonish tire-screeching sound as I stopped the paper towel literal millimeters from this leggy leeeetle fella I saw parked there. In a world full of people who have 1,276 more important things to do than waste time over trespassing insects, …
I wonder what the ultimate result will be from the wingbeat of this swallowtail who, before it gently fluttered away, amazingly let me get my camera all up in its probiscus as it rested near our garage this morning:
This was the sunflower whose main bloom that the renegade squirrels took left me shaking fists at the rascally rogues. But one of the beautiful aspects of sunflowers is when they lose their heads, often times they’ll just shrug off the setback and make more. In this case, this subsequent flower pictured is one of …
I did lose another bloom today, but lest I put forth the impression that all my sunflowers are going to the squirrels, a few blooms have managed to avoid those furry fiends and instead have been found by the honeybees for whom they were intended (click for the bigger picture).
I know, I know… The reasoning part of me understands that I can’t grow a sunflower patch for any specific creature. You can only do so much to protect it and the rest is mainly hoping for the best — and even when they get destroyed you try to recognize that the flowers aren’t going …
From a humble seed not even a third the size of my pinky nail planted at the end of May, our first lemon queen sunflower has finally thrown open its petals this morning (click for the bigger picture). Few things demonstrate the magnificence of life to me more than such an incredible and complex transformation. …