A Room with a View
? A few years ago, when the pandemic first started, I built an orchid table out of scrap lumber and other materials I had around the house. I did it partly just to stay busy but also because I wanted … Continued
Celebrate NWF’s Garden for Wildlife™ 50th Anniversary!
So to help Celebrate NWF’s Garden for Wildlife™ 50th Anniversary, I encourage you to take a closer look at nature. Cut down on the chemicals in your landscape. Plant some native plants. And learn to share your yard with the critters that were here before you!
Gardening for Wildlife
Habitat loss is one of the greatest factors contributing to the extinction of species on this planet. Depending on what part of the country you live in your backyard wildlife could include gopher tortoises, rabbits, deer, bobcats, foxes, hawks, squirrels, … Continued
Gardening for Butterflies
Nothing brings life to your yard and garden like an abundance of colorful, carefree butterflies! Since there are over 700 species of butterflies in North America, providing any type of flowering nectar plant will probably attract one or two to … Continued
Birds, butterflies and other blessings
The first thing I do every morning, even though it is still dark when I wake up, is to go outside and take a walk around our little woods and start counting the birds and other forms of wildlife that … Continued
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
Most of us have heard the quotation above. It is a quote from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” Shakespeare also penned the line “a rose by any other name … Continued
Beautyberry Plants help beat the skeeters
I’ve always loved the American Beautyberry plant (Callicarpa americana), not just because it produces beautiful purple berries in the fall, but because every bird and critter that moves through my yard love to munch on those berries. Being a wildlife … Continued
Getting Used to Tortoise Poop
I often step in tortoise poop. At least that’s what I think it is. When we built our home many years ago, we were determined not to disturb the local wildlife that lived on this particular piece of the earth … Continued
Living with nature
I feel like such a geek sometimes – a complete nerd – when it comes to nature. I spend my time on my property kneeling down to get eye to eye with tortoises and slugs and caterpillars. When I am … Continued
Hurricane Hummingbirds
Albert Einstein once said “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” On the morning of Sunday, September 5th, 2004, when 75 … Continued