Category Archives: Nature

A Bird in the Hand…

is worth so much more than two in the bush! Today I had the most awesome experience… there was a thud at the front window and I looked out to see a little bird laying belly-up in the pine straw. I also saw three of our cats honing in on him. I was able to...

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Once a biology teacher…

always the geeky biology teacher…Yes, I have an obsession with decomposers. It’s true, and I don’t deny it. Every year about this time I scour our little property for the spore-bearing heterotrophs, and every year they are there waiting on me in all their fungal glory. A trip just down the driveway yielded a bumper...

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Fun at Dusk

The sun was low in the sky tonight and it lit up many things around the yard on its way down. Had fun with my 50 mm…

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This one’s for the birds…

Yes, I’m a bit obsessed with my flock these days. They are so humorous! I witnessed Spot catching his first worm out of the hard ground; Fuzzy fought for a grub; seven birds fluffed their wings in a little dust bath pool they dug. It’s incredible the things these birds do when allowed to act...

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Itty (feathery) bitties {Middle Georgia Nature Photographer}

We have a little flock of birds at our house. We are chicken tending for some dear friends of ours. We have hopes of keeping a few to keep the grubs out of the yard and maybe give us an egg or two. Chickens are funny creatures. They have personality…really, they do. When I go...

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