My favorite 2022 bird photos — I take many bird photos and struggled to limit my 2022 favorites to only two per month, but here are my final choices . . . January I took this photo from my client’s home office, a space originally meant for a formal living room. My desk faced a wall of…

Has spring sprung??? For real? Maybe — maybe not. — Our Christmas week freeze was dry — no frost. This week’s freeze was damp — frost covered every surface like icing on a cake.

A little of this, a little of that, and lots of birds — Obviously, the Christmas week freeze didn’t adversely affect my Billgergia Bromeliad. Kathy, the former owner of our townhome, moved to a single-family house in a nearby neighborhood. She wanted a yard for her dog and her garden addiction. There’s hardly an inch of her yard that isn’t planted. In 2021…

January Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Hometown Pride” — City places braided with green spaces. Gainesville, Florida, is a city that appreciates and nurtures green spaces that all can enjoy. Our population is less than 150,000, but we have 34 public walking trails, 26 hiking trails, and 18 running trails, as well as more than a dozen nature preserves, parks, and wetlands. Some trails are…

The first week of January — 2023 started with fog — several days of murky morning fog. We were shrouded, which happens to be our Weeds & Wildflowers writing prompt for January.

Weeds & Wildflowers January Prompt — I love fog — light, misty ones — not the heavy fogs that cause pile-ups on highways. I was enchanted when I saw Ivy Shepherd’s foggy pasture. Although the pasture remains green, the tree in the forefront indicates late fall or winter — the perfect time for foggy mornings. According…

My unFlorida-like week in photos — This is what I looked like on Christmas morning when I walked Syau at 7:30 am. It was 25F degrees. The feels-like temp was 17F. I’m wearing a cloth mask, one that I bought early in the pandemic before scientists decided they didn’t offer much protection — no protection from…

A tribute to my missing Whistlers — Sometime between our first viewing in February 2017 of the townhome we would buy and our closing date of June first, these ducks appeared. Kathy, the former owner of our place, told me when I asked about the ducks: About a month after you first came by, those ducks flew…