I’ve mentioned this to a very few people so far, but I’m tired of hiding in the shadows with the issue. I’ve had a problem with ants in the rafters of my atrium for a few years now and it is time to tackle the issue. The sawdust is falling down and my roof will…
Category: fauna
Doodads — around the yard and beyond
Pics taken yesterday and also some flower pics from my walk last week.
Cardinal flowers and hummingbirds (tanka)
Cardinal flowersflag down thirsty hummingbirds;fizzy lifting drinkstransfix them; straw tongues sip andrecall drinks before feeders.
nature haiku
still along spines a green baby monster waits for dinner
dVerse Quadrille 179 — No Better Than Now
One copacetic afternoon two sleeping cats three glass fish wind chime four cardinals call five pink roses six inches of coffee seven warm strawberries eight tiny sun arnica nine fingerling zucchini ten green marble tomatoes eleven pages of Bono read twelve hours to bedtime I am today’s host of dVerse. I say: Write a quadrille…
Doodads — Stroll around the yard 070723 and US postage increase on 070923
Thanks to Dale (and Dan,) using the gallery block works better than either adding pics individually or in groups in the classic block. The test was the gardens tour last weekend. I purposely kept descriptions brief so as not to cut them off and it was more as a tester for the photo loading. Today’s…
Tanka Tuesday 322 and dVerse OLN 340 — Turtle Spirit
Turtle collage I did a few years ago The turtle totem wisdom teaches us about walking our path in peace and sticking to it with determination and serenity. Slow moving on earth, yet also incredibly fast and agile in water, those who have the turtle as totem or spirit animal may be encouraged to take…
Tao-Talk 