my Monday, 11 September 2023
Some insects can be rather creepy, especially those with just too many legs. Some can appear threatening, such as wasps and hornets. Some can be fascinating to watch, such as bees gathering pollen. Some can be beautiful and mood lifting, such as butterflies. And some can be just plain odd, such as walking sticks. Looking …
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my Monday, 31 July 2023
On one of my first Wordless Wednesday posts I added a caption, and a friend quipped, "That's not wordless." Since then, I have not added captions to my Wednesday photographs. Sometimes, though, I have a photograph that I want to comment on. Sometimes, I have a photo that I don't think is particularly noteworthy---I just …
six on Saturday, 29 July 2023
I know that it is just as hot or hotter in other areas of the country and around the world as it is in Alabama. But successive days with the heat index, sometimes even the air temperature, hitting 100 degrees Fahrenheit is just plan oppressive. It certainly limits one's time in the garden. One of …
Landscape and the Landscape Gardens
On a recent trip to the UK and a walking-hiking get away weekend in the Peak District, more specifically the Derbyshire Dales, I experienced an unexpected "lab" exercise in natural landscape and landscape gardens. I say unexpected, but certainly not unappreciated or unwanted. Since my retirement from teaching medieval literature, I've turned my research energies …
After Eden 