Our 12th anniversary gift generously presented over morning coffee, not so generously shared. We love these sweet mice, and before this, humane trapped them one by one and walked them to a nearby field for relocation. New era!
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.
Yo Ziggy, check out Mom’s sweater tie—it seriously stretches all the way to the dinning room! And when it snaps back, you just grab it again, like, a million times. Nah, don’t worry, she’ll never know. Now just to mix it up, you can start on her scarves, like the silk ones with the hand-beading? […]
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 […]
On my studio doorstep, in afternoon sun, I found half a luna moth’s wings. I’ve longed to see this favorite in the wild, and this is as close as I’ve come. It was left at my feet, like my cat used to leave birds and lizards, in offering. Like most, I haven’t been feeling especially grounded, and […]
A Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus) purloining from a single Drumstick Allium (Allium sphaerocephalon). It kept flying away to sample others in this cluster, and even my hand at one point, then returning to its steady focus. Today I learned these critters are nectar thieves—they don’t pollinate in return for their delicious dinner. Even worse than […]