Here are a couple of images of our amaryllis flowering. This amaryllis has been in the family for years, having first been cared for by my wife’s grandmother then passed down to us. It’s birthed a couple pups over the past few years and I’ll have to separate them probably next Spring (now that each [...]
At just a few millimeters wide, this little striped jumping spider (Salticidae) would have been missed except he was busy scurrying back and forth constructing his retreat web on the very top of the sunflower plant just as the morning rays poked through the leaves of a nearby tree. It was incredibly difficult getting a [...]
I spotted a small mockingbird and a male cardinal in the garden today. The cardinal was rooting around in the lantana, dill and parsley. Was he hunting my caterpillars? The small mockingbird watched me carefully for some time before flying off to another nearby fence to holler for mom and dad.
Continuing the “Thinking Small” theme this week, here are a few shots taken yesterday evening and this morning in the garden. Although it may be a little boring for my readers seeing the same thing over and over, I really can’t get enough of taking bee photos. I keep up my attempts at the closest/sharpest [...]
If I spend any amount of time in the garden, I soon discover some sort of creeping, crawling creature. Since I was a little boy, I’ve been fascinated with bugs and insects. I would often turn over the large, landscaping rocks in my mother’s flower beds to discovery what lurked underneath. When my brother and [...]
