Over on my nature blog, I’ve celebrated National Invasive Species Awareness Week and featured 5 invasive species we’re battling in my mid-Atlantic area. If you’re adding to the garden this spring, check out what to avoid to help wildlife & nature. Here’s the first post on periwinkle on The Squirrel Nutwork!
I blog here, but I also blog on The Squirrel Nutwork. (No, this isn’t an April Fool’s joke.) There, four squirrels share their outdoor nature finds from their suburban Washington, D.C. neighborhood. They take an annual winter hiatus, but resume blogging each year by joining the Blogging from A to Z Challenge, which follows the […]
I haven’t gotten out too many posts this winter, and I hope my readers will forgive me as I continue to write and revise my next novel. I’m participating in the Blogging From A to Z Challenge in April over on my nature blog, The Squirrel Nutwork–come see what my squirrels are up to! And […]
We’ve had a wild honeybee hive living in our cabin’s fireplace for over ten years. No, they don’t get inside, even before we installed a woodburing stove with a sealed stovepipe to meet the local clean air requirements. They come and go. Last year they swarmed. After the flood, I planted wildflowers, as much for […]
In the last few days I have read two articles advising authors to write more blog posts about what they do IRL—when not writing. True, life cannot be all fantasy and romance! So…I take photographs. My 20 year-old can’t figure out why, and I can’t explain it. It’s either something people do or they don’t. […]