WRENAISSANCE REFLECTIONS

Skywatch is a meme, a communal sharing, of photos of the sky from around the world. It’s just-for-fun, not-for-profit, and noncompetitive. To participate, blog a photo which includes the sky, then add its link to the master list at the Skywatch website. Enjoy, and visit the rest of the Skywatch posts when they are posted [...]

If you’ve read my bio, you know I self identify as a nature lover and tree hugger. No surprise then, that I live in a place that also identifies itself in those terms.

It’s gray today. It’s cold, it’s snowing and raining, and our favorite local college team lost. Not just lost, embarrassed themselves. What [...]

As my non-birdy friends would say, “You had to go all the way to France to see ducks?”
No, but since I was there ….
They speak a universal language even I can translate. “Quack” means “feed me!”

This is my favorite of the remaining butterfly pictures.

But I like this one, too.

And this one.

I give up.

Our first view of the rec area was a large paved parking lot, with a boat ramp and a lot of flashing lights at one end (more about that tomorrow). While that doesn’t sound promising, it turned out that despite the pavement and the excitement, there was nature to be found.
I can’t identify the first [...]

As I mentioned in The Things You Learn, the groundhogs wore a bare spot in the neighbor’s field.
Now, I’m noticing that right in that same spot, the vegetation is different. No idea what that means, it’s just one of those interesting things you notice.

In case you’ve forgotten, this is where we were.

I fell in love with these guys, who were just as cute as they could be.

Not the greatest pictures, since they were behind glass, but better than the ones of the giant millipede which I had to throw away. That was a big disappointment.

And just so you [...]