The Great Backyard Bird Count has begun for 2009. This is an annual event hosted by the National Audubon Society and Cornell Lab of Ornithology. This is my first year to participate, but I am thoroughly enjoying it. Dave and I had noticed a new bird on our bird feeders within the past week and wondered what it was. With the help of their bird list of appropriate birds for our area and time of year, coupled with my bird hand
Bayberries on branch I’ve recently noticed all the bayberries on the bayberry shrubbery in our back yard and it has been luring me into an experimental mode. So today I picked about 3/4 cup of the tiny blue berries and I have been picking out the tiny stems. I read up on making bayberry wax on several web pages and learned that bayberry wax is very expensive because it is such a time consuming process to make it. I am a
I was so disappointed when I went outside this morning to go to school. I couldn’t see any yellow dandelions – only fluffy seed on top of stems where the flowers used to be. And I knew there were lots of dandelions around only a day or two ago. Here is my dog Missy standing behind a clump of dandelions with seed heads sticking out. I can’t make a pretty dandelion chain with
