(all images can be clicked for the bigger picture) A couple weeks ago Susan came home to find a tell-tale lizard tail on the kitchen floor, but unlike the last time when Jiggy brought a tail and its lizard inside, the rest of the reptile was nowhere in sight so we figured (hoped) that Jiggy …
Not sure how it got there, but this morning I found a katydid in the kitchen, on the inside of the window next to the breakfast nook. After catching it up in a mason jar I took it outside where it crawled out onto the leaves of our Carolina cherry tree and then allowed me …
Don’t ask me: I don’t know why I came to call this behavior of Pepper’s “glarring” it just fits. And yes, I do know that pepper has the littlest head on the biggest body.
I’ve gotten so used to seeing the black carpenter bees that buzz around the house (one’s even dug a home out of an old log in the northside garden) that when Ranger pointed out this poor dead magnificent monster (at 25mm it’s practically three times a typical honeybee) on the patio this morning, I had …
In the backyard on poop scooping duty yesterday morning I came upon the carnage. All that was left strewn along the dirt near the hammock were wings of a butterfly that had met its doom. It’s assailant unknown. I guess there may be people out there who go their entire lives not getting to hold …
I haven’t done much in the way of sunflower patch updates or pix recently because, well… as we know all good things must come to an end, and the last week or so has seen our sunflower beauties fading as they come to the various ends of their days. Right now there are several of …
There are encounters I don’t tell you about because there is nothing much to tell. Dogs I come across that I attempt to help who’ll have nothing of it. There were two of those Tuesday that I didn’t share because it was just the heartbreak of two old dirty haggard animals that don’t give a …