So, I went out this afternoon to catch some of the last rays of sun, hoop a bit and, well, enjoy the expanse of a big open field near my home in Maryland.
As…
There's a new kid in town. (Well, actually, she's retired and not a kid, but she is a new neighbor at the Columbia Gardeners Long Reach plots.) Nice, huh? She knows what…
Why, yes, that is a photo of a praying mantis killing and eating a humming bird. Thank you, Internet!
Carnivores gonna carnivore, right?
Apparently, they rather like bird brains, burrowing through the soft-tissue eye sockets…
I don't know when it happened. Maybe I was in elementary school. Probably.
I saw some video, some film, some something or other at school in which a moray eel, its size and strength…
I know better than to be fooled by the FEELING of spring in the air.
I live in Maryland--have most of my life--and I know even a mild winter such as how this one…
I live near.a lake. Not a real lake, that is, because I live in Maryland, and while we get to boast being home in large part to the Chesapeake Bay along with being…
An evening walk around #LakeElkhorn, spinning my fire staff as I did (working on my chi roll), listening to classical guitar ... and this--THIS!--was my backdrop.
'Tis the season of late summer. Of early fall harvests. The time when many a plant give their last hurrah, their fruit, their seeds.
I can talk a good game about gardening, though truth…
At a neighborhood barbecue recently, I wanted to prepare the Solo Stove for the night-time "mini bonfire" ahead. I started gathering some kindling and smaller wood from a nearby woodpile when my eyes…
Just caught a mosquito, mid-air. This was not a capture-and-release exercise.
Photo source.
Spring in Maryland: it's like this most years, is it not?
this
First, it's cool as we transition from winter into spring. It rains sometimes; it's sunny and near-perfect other times; the world…
It does not matter whether the cherry blossoms and first wave of spring flowers come early in the season or late. It does not matter whether a particular spring is wet and cool…