Two visitors to the bird feeders are extraordinary beautiful during the breeding season. A lot of people get them confused. Native Grackles have yellow eyes and black beaks or bills.…
These squirrels cost me a small fortune in birdseed. Since we have a Certified Wildlife Habitat, we can’t pick and choose who visits us. At least I can entice them…
When everyone else was running off to get bread and milk at the grocery store before the arrival of the Kenan blizzard, I ran to my local hardware store and…
A thick white snowfall!Afterward, hungry birds foundA seed and nut feast Winter Storm Kenan arrived on Friday night into Saturday. Expecting strong gale-force winds, we took down the bird feeders.…
What I love about the Brushstroke app is that it doesn’t try to upsell you constantly or place ads across its platform while working. I have invested a one time…
Yesterday afternoon, in my pollinator garden, I had fun photographing this Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly. I took dozens of photos, but a few visiting the purple vervain (Verbena bonariensis) flower…
Beach traffic at the Pink Bucket Inn in Lewes is steady. Word-by-beak must be spreading!
As a novice birdwatcher, one of the trickiest parts of photographing birds is not scaring them. And birdwatching from home is especially so. The minute you see activity in your…
We are forecasted to get a winter storm this weekend so before the temperatures fell and the participation begins, I went outside and replenished our bird feeders and suet cages.…
Delaware’s Duck Dynasty is in Demise Recently I thoroughly enjoyed a 4-hour cruise along Delaware’s Broadkill River in Sussex County Delaware offered by Cape Water Tours and Taxi. My first,…
This classic (and historical) red Gambrel barn is owned by the Hopkins Family, Delaware’s largest dairy farm in Sussex County. This particular red barn is part of the Covered Bridge…
The beautiful, early-blooming eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis) is in full beauty. in Delaware, mid-April. Once characteristic of this small tree is the way the blossoms cluster on the branches and…
Clematis ‘Viennetta’ taken at the Sussex Master Gardener Demonstration Garden. Processed with the mobile app “Brushstroke”
Dainty garden bells, Pieris japonica, ring silently in March’s wind. Nikon D850 with 105mm micro lens.
The hues of a renwed garden provide a perfect companion to aerial visitors. Perfect weather welcomed an abundance of Buckeye and Monarch butterflies, bees and minute no seeums (midges). Shot…
Oh, go on! Get your feet wet! A few drops won’t hurt you! When you’re dressed for work and take a walk in the garden and suddenly the sprinklers turn…
A weevil explores the tiny, Daisy like Philadelphia fleabane (Erigeron philadelphicus)
A Saturday morning offered all the elements for a peaceful, pastoral photograph.
A Haiku in response to The Daily Post Tree Haunted. Gnarly. Dead. Shadows, limbs tell old stories Of swings and seasons
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge “Fierce” This was Bamboo, one of two Siamese cat brothers we adopted as litter mates in 2000. Bamboo was fierce. Fierce…