Zombie Insect Apocalypse

Today’s post is brought to you by the 2024 Zombie Insect apocalypse.🐞 That’s right! We’ve got Aphids and Leaf Miners; as well as a whole bunch of other crazy forest creature beetle festering infections.  Do not fear though, these harmful infestations are not only beautiful, but easily manageable. We just had to turn to our …

Frost Skeletons

Frozen. The sting of winter; all that knows it seek hibernation or death. Except those with allergies; we love the weighty blanket; covering all our vulnerability and illness; protecting us from that which harms… let someone else be sick for a change. Let the trees hold us up with their arms, they are used to …

Autumn Gratitude

Happy Virgo season; today is the September New Moon 9/2/24.  What new seeds are you planting for the next 6 months?  The dark nights without the moonlight help us to really dig deep: And there’s this next stage too… The reflection after the freeze and thaw, freeze and thaw. The time most people may not …

Endless Butterflies

Hiking the Huckleberry Trail and entering into endless fields of fervent flutter-bys, ravishing and delightful; full of brilliance. It was shocking how many there were, ba-jillions… floating, squirming, fighting, fleeing back and forth in all sorts of flight patterns; anxiously in search of sweet August nectar before the summer sun sets. When Kenai was first …

Bank of Trees

Raindrops: so rare during this sweltering drought; I happened to walk outside just after the falling “too-short” storm cycle and found this: water. Stuck to plants, slipping all over, little spider pools, like nature’s slip n slide; tiny fairy balls of liquid glass. Look close, you may find yourself in the delicate reflection. We all …

Paintbrush of August

The paintbrush of August; Harvest season: when our ripe fruits need picking, seed pods are dispersing, and nervous energy of sunshine months is at its highest. We are in the thick of things, some of us still drastically flattened by the curve of life, others riding the jagged waves— to distance or not too distant, …

Tired Knees of the Solomon’s Seal

I never knew the unique but prodigious Solomon’s Seal could be found in Wyoming.❤️ For this post, my interest lead me to find where the name comes from. The Greek name Polygonatum yields a scientific explanation: poly “many” and gonu “knee.” The knees for some botanists seem to refer to the areas between the indentions …

Roadside Bouquet

“What’s out now” roadside bouquet edition 💐 Plucked from the edge, trimmed thin: Hitch-hikin’ hillbillies waiting for their lift, clover-ing blown berries, do-little daisies, roadie hipsters hiking the hips of their rose; it’s these last days, just a few more- almost there… Falling naps of autumn we all can’t wait for. Wandering petals, asking asters. …