Parks are closed, so I’m sticking with nearby nature. Yep, I’m sticking like Cleavers on corduroy.*
Today, I walked the yard to take phone pics of native flowers: only natives. (Non-natives, I’ll post tomorrow.) Continue reading “Native flowers in the yard today”
A “House Centipede” was in the house this morning. He was trapped in my kitchen sink—my uncharacteristically clean sink—which proved so slick even 15 pairs of centipede legs could not scrabble a foothold.
Centipedes aren’t new to me, but a clean sink is, as is an organized kitchen. My threshold for dirt and chaos has always been high. But looming pandemics change people. I changed when I realized my family would be hunkered down for an undetermined length of time, and that we’d need to feed ourselves,
and that I was the only one who knew where the food was.
The first thing I did was organize the pantry so that if I dropped dead,
at least my boys could find the mac ‘n’ cheese. Continue reading “Kitchen Nature: House Centipede”
I specialize in sidewalk nature—because it’s the nature most of us have—so woodland spring ephemerals do not usually qualify. But this trout lily does. It was blooming next to the road, one short leap over the drainage gully.
And not just one trout lily, but a whole school of them, dappled and nodding alongside a steep stream that empties into a parking lot. Continue reading “Sidewalk Nature: Trout Lily”
First-Day-of-Spring Stinkhorn!
This tableau was spearing from the brush-pile today, which is where we store the dog’s tennis balls.
Just when I needed a good laugh.
“Devil’s Dipstick” is one common name. (There are others…) It’s a type of stinkhorn. Continue reading “First Day of Spring Stinkhorn”
Happy First Day of Spring!
It’s raining elm seeds right now. This one fell in my tea, so I ate it, then ate a few more.
They are delicious.
They taste like the First Day of Spring. Continue reading “First Day of Spring”
A short walk on the Mossy Ridge at Warner Park is good medicine.
I never say Nature is for Healing, because “Nature” is not here to make people feel better. “Nature” has every right to exist for its own mysterious, necessary, world-turning processes.
BUT, I do say that paying attention to the natural world can mitigate some humans ills, and one of them is anxiety. Continue reading “Warner Wildflowers, mid-March part 2”
SIDEWALK NATURE 