Nature The Little Things Back in April, after several months of allowing our garden to grow out with native Florida plants and wildflowers for pollinators and other wildlife, we got a notice from our city code enforcement
Gardening Dandelions “About this grass now. I didn't finish telling. It grows so close it's guaranteed to kill off clover and dandelions-” “Great God in heaven! That means no dandelion wine next year! That means
Nature Lawn to Meadow Progress Pic When I look over my back garden, I really think this meadow thing is starting to happen. This is definitely a project that will evolve over the years rather than mere months.
Nature In Full Bloom The black-eyed susans at the front of the garden are thriving. More blooms appear every day.
Nature Spring Is Here For Real Yesterday, our first black-eyed susan bud opened in all it’s glory, and if you look closely, you can see a tiny spider chillin’ on the petals.
Religion/Spirituality On Selfishness and Altruism As I've mentioned in the past, I feed the neighborhood crows, and for me, this represents an important spiritual practice. Over time, I've noticed a trend. My crows hate when the neighborhood squirrels
Nature Spiderwort A small flying insect takes a moment of rest on a spiderwort bloom. Taken at Depot Park on August 26, 2017.
Nature Something to Crow About The crows I've been feeding can now recognize my car. I've suspected this for a about a week after an incident where a crow landed on the bike rack of an SUV in
Nature Wild Adventures at the Haskell Hacienda While Allyson was getting coffee with friends, a high school girl came to my front door very upset. She was trying to sell magazines, but she just saw a baby raccoon fall out
Nature Lake Eola Park Our fundamental, self-enforced separation from the natural world is tantamount to ripping a child from its mother's breast and forcing it to live on Diet Coke. (Dianne Slyvan, The Circle Within)
Religion/Spirituality Mockingbirds This morning, I went outside for a bit of meditation/ritual to start the day off. It was before sunrise, and even down in the Tampa area, there was a nice chill in
Religion/Spirituality The Sacred Atlantic For several years now, Allyson and I have made an annual pilgrimage to the beach. Even though we live in Florida, we usually only make it to the beach about once per year.
Nature Who Speaks for the Earth? On Earth Day, I leave you all with one of science's great poets and prophets. Substitute the spectre of nuclear war for the humbling reality of global warming, and this rings frightfully true.
