Nature Archives

Autumn – A Flight of Fancy

December 17, 2022 @ 12:23 am

Enjoy a Lyrical Ride through an Autumn Forest (our backyard) with Mutant Smith’s I Don’t Make Mistakes

In Early August

August 10, 2022 @ 1:20 pm

Catching up on things – haven’t posted for a while. Today, it’s the backyard – later this week I’ll catch up on some ship building – maybe.

The house through the trees – from mid hill

These two pics – just about the same shot – diff lighting – really changes the mood

One butterfly – was a very busy plant – all kinds of bees and things working it today

View of the front fence, standing near the barn

Shimmering reflections and an old unused canoe

looking at the night, from the dining room

And some wild looking trees up on the hill

Just Another Yard Run – with that Drone

October 24, 2021 @ 7:18 pm

So much to see …

This park commemorates an ancient train wreck that happened here – years ago – bridge collapsed. But today, it’s beautiful wetlands – with a magnificent boardwalk going right through it – you get to walk right through/over the wetlands. And there’s everything in there – in and out of the water. And it’s always changing. See for yourself … using your finger or mouse, to change your POV.

Use your mouse, or finger, to see what you want.

An Abandoned Hive …

September 13, 2021 @ 11:17 am

We had let this hive go, a couple years ago, after the bees died during the winter. Then, last month – the empty hive after two years of hosting nothing but a few flies – had some bees milling about. Quite a few – and I wondered … And then this month, a lotta bees – and now – all of these new bees, they are all full bore at work, preparing the hive for winter – with pollen laden bees returning about 1 every second during the day.

They no longer use the original entrance – it’s swallowed up by growth, being at the bottom – but a couple frames up, there’s a gap where the top set of frames had rotated slightly – the stack comes askew – and the bees seem to find this entrance to their liking.

It’s so perfectly lovely – we feel blessed – to see an abandoned hive come alive again. And all we had to to was leave a hive out in the yard, year after year, until …