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• I love this little vignette. Are they communicating? Yes. Are they aware of one another? Yes. Is each bird aware of itself? Yes. D...

• So cute! Yes. Yesterday’s Instagram post  possum babies were so cute. And according to an article appearing in last December’...

• One of the great wonders of photography is that it captures a split second of time and freezes it forever. That split-second ...

• There are all kinds of flowers in bloom now, many shapes and sizes and colors all designed to be alluring to attract pollinators. Bu...

• For the rest of the article and the podcast, click:  Great Smokies podcast And for those on the go, a gram in an Instant,  c...

• Day 97: Still at home. Still safe but last night the royal subjects had a treat, proving that you do not have to travel far to...

• Who, me? Day 96: Still safe. Still at home unless I am in the woods or a masked man in a grocery store. Goodness. It has been a...

• Albert Einstein said, "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as thou...

• Still at home. Still playing it safe. But, if you walk slowly through the woods behind my house, over the sandstone ridge and down i...

• Still at home. Still playing it safe, but look what came to visit a couple of nights ago. I was on the front porch and he dropped in...

• Keeping it safe. Staying at home. But look at what I found in my woodpile.  It has probably been a while since you thought about...