Yellow Spring and Summer Flowers
Spring starts with little crocuses, irises, and daffodils. The daffodils assert themselves with bright yellow blooms. The yellow color seems to reflect the sunshine that increases in this season. We split the daffodils every few years to spread the Springtime cheer across the garden. A few are poking up by the mailbox. Yellow flowers […]
Easy and Simple Bird Identification
BIRD BASICS Do you like to solve puzzles? There are so many birds to be found wherever you are that identification of a bird is like solving a mystery. The best tools you have to solve these puzzles are your brain and a decent pair of binoculars. From the beginning: Animals are living things that […]
Mountain Streams and Dreams
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could right now step off the concrete onto the soft brown earth and green grasses next to a clear flowing stream? Surrounding the stream are various shrubs, a few sticks and logs, and small pebbles and rocks smoothed by the water. Not too many trees here, but there are […]
Woodpeckers in Trees
Our motto here is Random Nature Pleasantly Captured. We hope that these unique and pleasant scenes from the world around us increase your enjoyment of life. We have a number of woodpeckers locally; some are year-round denizens. Commonly seen are diminutive Downy and the larger Red-bellied Woodpeckers. Less frequently seen but still very much […]
Winter Birds
Our motto here is Random Nature Pleasantly Captured. We hope that these unique and pleasant scenes from the world around us increase your enjoyment of life. It is a cool and windy day in January. We live in northwestern Virginia, and have four true seasons, equally spread throughout the year. Also fairly equally distributed is […]