Category: animals

Visitors!

Video on YouTube: Visitors last night I’m not sure how to post a video effectively, but am so excited to report four – yes, four! – bears in the yard last night! They were...

duck brook

We took a bike ride in Acadia, with many other riders who had the same thought that today would be a good day to ride. I’ve never been to the Duck Brook Bridge. It...

White Admiral

This might be a new butterfly to me – the White Admiral. Limenitis arthemis. I saw a post from a nursery I follow on Instagram calling this an Admiral. I thought, oh no, that’s...

Joy

The coneflowers (echinacea) at the edge of my plot in the community garden are attracting a lot of butterflies and bees. Standing next to the flowers, I’m enveloped in a cloud of flight. It...

Moth and note on comments

I found this beautiful moth on a flower at the community garden. I used Google to identify it as a Virginia ctenucha moth. I love every feature of this insect: her dusky wings, iridescent...

Wildlife

Sam was mowing the neighbor’s lawn while she’s away. He went around and around. When he got close to the center, he startled a fawn out of the grass. It ran away. Last night,...

Wonders of the world

We went to Connecticut for five days to visit family and friends. It was a trip full of memories – good ones and not-so-good ones. Interesting to notice what I remembered, what I never...