“Trees remind us how busy and unstable we are, and how ridiculous that is.” —Rebecca Solnit, A Childhood of Reading and Wandering “Imagine your whole life in a few months, everything accelerated. We must seem as slow as a tree to them.” —Bert Wilson, Yellow-Faced Bumble Bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) As I child I feared all stinging… Continue reading Bumble Bees, Honey Bees and Milkweed

Several avian neighbors regularly flout our home owners association rules by installing custom built additions on our house from late spring into the summer months. Of course our human neighbors are not aware of the nests and even if they were, it is against the law to move or destroy an active nest. While the… Continue reading Our Closest Neighbors Are Birds