Entries Tagged as 'flora and fauna'
butterflies and maiden flies
July 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · flora and fauna, photos
Tags:butterfly·maiden fly
spiders and snakes and bugs and slugs
June 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · flora and fauna, photos, wildlife
Tags:black snake·housefly·slugs·spiders
natural abstractions
May 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · flora and fauna, photos
Creek Update
April 27th, 2010 · 3 Comments · flora and fauna, photos, wildlife
With the passing of each week, Galena Creek continues to grow cleaner and healthier. The freshwater snails are more abundant and I’ve found what appear to be brown trout minnows swimming around. Though I haven’t been able to photograph any yet, there are also crayfish. New aquatic plants, some quite beautiful, are growing and it [...]
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the return of pleuroceridae
April 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · flora and fauna, wildlife
One of the great things about living on the Creek is watching it change and become healthier from the cleanup and conservation efforts we’ve made over the last few years. Earlier this week, I made a rather exciting discovery. Clinging to several of the rocks in the Creek were colonies of freshwater snails. The reason [...]
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Morning Webs and the Grits Mess
September 14th, 2008 · No Comments · flora and fauna, recipes
I don’t know if the seemingly inordinate number of morning spider webs I’ve been seeing lately means anything, like a hard winter, early frost, or anything like that, but they make some cool photos. Here are a couple for your perusal. The Grits Mess Anne tends to eat healthier than I do, particularly when it [...]
Living with Critters
September 4th, 2008 · No Comments · flora and fauna
One of the least pleasant aspects of country life is the variety and number of critters with whom we often share our humble little cottage. For the first couple of Decembers when I came down for the weekend, I found the place overrun with mice and ladybugs. The mice I expected, but the hundreds of [...]
Odds and Ends
August 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment · flora and fauna
Our largest sunflower, which we have dubbed Audrey II after the man-eating plant in Little Shop of Horrors, seems to be taking forever to bloom. We’ve been waiting and waiting……… Ok. Good winter or bad winter? I haven’t a clue. And despite everything the Ol’ Wives and the various almanacs have to say, I don’t [...]
The Birds and the Bees Do Lunch
August 18th, 2008 · No Comments · flora and fauna
Tags:flora and fauna