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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Hester the Bunny and I Have a Talk

LOTS OF CRITTERS live in my back yard and I truly love to watch them all and know that I’m providing a habitat that’s suitable for them since I live in a tightly-packed neighborhood in a small town where most of the former farmland and greenspace around is being developed

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Daily Photo Reprise: Summer Birds, 2011

“That’s a house finch, the one with the red cap.” “Okay, this noisy one down here who’s swearing at me is a tufted titmouse.” “He is noisy! I thought the wren was bad with her language but this guy is swearing in languages other than bird.” “Let’s keep staring at

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Daily Photo: Mimi, Overexposed

I give her a great shot, a perfect pose, me with daisies all around me, and I even look straight at her. And she screws it up. No, I’m not posing any longer even though you have the right settings now. You had your chance. She really did sit right

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Daily Sketch: For the Bird

Published on May 29, 2013 in backyard, birds

I didn’t get to do a sketch today because I was keeping an eye on a fledgling bird I’d rescued from the street in front of my house yesterday afternoon. At first I thought it was a robin, but later decided it was a black bird of some sort, grackle

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Of Flowers and Memorial Day

Published on May 26, 2013 in backyard, essay, pet loss

These bleeding hearts are blooming, just in time for Memorial Day, leaning protectively over the sleeping kitty memorial in my back yard. Bleeding hearts are an old-fashioned favorite with their large palmate leaves and long stems with unique flowers dangling like little purses, blooming profusely early in spring. If you

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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Sweet and Sour in Summer, Poison Ivy!

Itch. Itch. Scratch scratch. Scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch DIG DIG—aaaggghhh! No, it’s not your cat or dog, it’s you! And what’s the culprit? Poison ivy! But you’ve been wearing work clothes in an office all week, where the heck did it come from? Does your cat visit your yard

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A New View

Mimi wants to know what this tree is doing lying atop her savannah of grasses and wildflowers where she can prowl like the panther she is, but she’ll just have to make due with the rest of the yard for now. A quick and powerful spring storm moved through yesterday

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Daily Photo: The Panther and the Birthday Party

A sleek black panther was strolling through the wild grasses this afternoon! Mimi was imagining herself as a panther strolling through a meadow in search of…well, she was in search of just the right blade of grass. She’s typically not interested but it looks so luscious even to me, especially

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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: What’s Growing in Your Backyard?

THINGS ARE SPROUTING every minute out there in your yard, so it’s time to get out there and get to know your friends! Yes, everything that grows out there is your friend in one way or another, even the dandelions, and maybe even the poison ivy. . . . .

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Daily Photo: Good Morning From Our Garden

Mimi stops to smell the forget-me-nots as we saunter out for our morning sojourn into the garden. While I often do a little bit—or a lot of—actual work in the garden on nice mornings, I was on a mission today, and Mimi was a great help. Now that the forget-me-nots

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