For the past five or more years, our house hosted a next of honeybees. They had taken up residence inside the siding and wall of the house at the base of the balcony on the upper story on the back of the house. Given the threat to bees from sudden death and disappearing colonies syndromes, we did not… Read More »
The last two pictures I took before the last of the snows melted were the two below. We noticed the woodpecker, a Downy or Hairy, hanging onto the rail, and not moving. After a couple of minutes, we became concerned, because even though we were moving behind the glass doors, enough usually to startle any birds feeding on… Read More »
Two snow storms swept through Indiana in February. These storms dumped up to three feet of snow on the east coast. Washington, D.C. had “storm of the century” snowfalls. Here in South Central Indiana, the first wave was about four inches, the second wave dumped about seven inches on us. Here are some pictures from the February snows… Read More »