Nature

Sadie is over 135 years old so she has seen quite a few snowfalls in her days! Here she is in 2021 with all of us bunkered in for snow and sleet until Saturday or Sunday. It's so quiet outside...

I just saw one of these sitting on the fence: Rose Breasted Grosbeak. They only migrate through here and I've never seen one before! I didn't take the photo above. I snagged it off Google, but he looked like that...

My pet wasp is peeking above the citronella candle at me. I never knew I wanted a pet wasp but she moved into the pipes of my deck chair and we hit it off. Apparently, she was looking for a...

Gold Finches are visiting. There were two pair trying to eat at feeder, along with house finch, cardinals, and a junco all at one time. I couldn’t manage to get them all in a single picture....

Sweet little speckled king snake going down a hole to eat mice and moles! God speed, snek! ? No, that isn’t it at the top of this page. But if you didn’t know what a speckled king snake looks like...

There's a pileated woodpecker, hammering happily in the neighbor's pine tree this morning. ?? No, that isn’t it at the top of this page. But if you didn’t know what a pileated woodpecker looks like in flight, now you do!...

I've mentioned before that we live in the migratory bird path, and we get a ton of hummingbirds in September. In fact, 40 miles East of us in Holly Springs, Mississippi, is where the Hummingbird Festival takes place every September...

Wow! I wish I’d had my camera ready, a blue heron just flew overhead, while I was in the back yard. That may be the coolest thing I’ve seen since moving here and I’ve seen lots of awesomeness! I'm super...

Lots of Cardinals! Many immature ones. Also a Carolina Chickadee, picking bugs off the JuJube tree. Butt’s on the grill! Put a few apple wood chunks from our apple tree on the coals. It’s smelling really sweet now! It’s after...