Web to the Face
“If I can fool a bug… I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.”Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White I recently discovered that a surefire way to wake-up in the morning is to pull open the blinds and find myself face to face with an orb weaver spider that used the night…
Life is Messy Too
I have a lot of birds in the garden. Mostly finches and chickadees, but also a pair of doves, some raucous blue jays, sparrows, and the occasional nuthatch. Just yesterday a group of three flickers were happily aerating the back lawn for me. Recently I had a new family hanging out, a family of hawks. …
Trash Pandas of the Night
A few nights ago I was working in my kitchen. Nicolas Le Floch was on the telly and a batch of damson jam was bubbling on the stove. It was a bit on the late side, but I don’t have A/C so if I’m going to heat up my kitchen I prefer to do it…
Japanese Beetles – Oh, how I hate thee…
Late June rolled up and so did the little sods known as Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica). It’s a type of scarab beetle, but not one of those dung rolling ones made cool by Egyptology and, well, dung rolling. These creatures may be shiny and pretty but friends have had their raspberries decimated by them and…
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