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…
My Thoughts
I like a little sci-fi.
Ack, truth be told, I like a lot of sci-fi. I'll take sci-fi most any day over a rom-com or love story. But when I started watching an…
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…
Not sure how or why this memory from back in the day popped up, but this morning it did. Here goes.
my first apartment
When I was 27 years old I had just started…
When I was a kid--I don't know exactly when; maybe when I was 10 or 11 years old--my mother made duck. A whole roasted duck. It was, by far, one of the most…
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…
Every single time I push the start button on my dishwasher, washing machine or dryer, I feel immense gratitude for the "common luxuries" they provide.
So grateful.