Ivy: Halloween bat toy must die! Ziggy: Totally…you get it, sis.

Alfonso does his Canada Goose dance through the grasslands as birds large and small abandon nests or cross borders, and the algae and milkweed bloom.

Ziggy: Why, just look at this feather, Ivy! Isn’t Mother Nature bewitching? Ivy: Yeah, pure enchantment. Now gimme a hand, Zig, I nearly got this thing dismantled.

Introducing 🐾Ziggy & Ivy 🐾! These tween siblings are four months old, spent some part of their first two months on the street, and have been with us nearly two weeks. Ivy (black) is polydactyl (she has extra front toes like mittens), and befitting a gal whose namesake is Poison Ivy Rorschach, she’s a purr machine […]

This female Black Swallowtail (Papilio Polyxenes) lives in my garden, unhindered by her damaged wing, fluttering and feasting on the self-seeded verbena (planted last year) that pops up every so often in the beds. She keeps me company as I pull weeds, sip coffee, sweat, and sneak in some green time before the heat and to-do […]