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Flower Or Weed?

Flower Or Weed?

The summer after Hurricane Michael a Titus 2 student and I stopped and dug up a clump of black eyed Susan wildflowers on our little road that were in jeopardy of being run down by trucks coming in and out pulling out downed trees in the acreage across the road from...

A Place At The Lake……

5/15/2015   Seen today: Upon arriving home after a rain shower I spotted a turtle, about 7 inches in diameter, on the walkway by the porch. I went in for a moment then came out to find him hiding under a large hosta. Lots of others enjoying the yard along with...

Poem: Surveying Property In Alabama

Surveying Property in Alabama Acres of yellow wild flowers carpet a field Soft and fragrant beneath the hooves of grazing cattle. A half mile further west, another is clothed in white. A pond mirrors the blue of the April sky As a single white cloud admires its own...

Spirea Van hootii …. Resilience

Just yesterday I had noticed the first white  blossoms of Bridal Wreath around town.  They make me smile. Anytime my Daddy saw them blooming he would say their scientific name..”Spirea Van Hootii”…  According to Mother, it was the only blooming plant...

Gardening After Hurricane Michael

  from 3/25/19 Now that the reconstruction work on the seawall, dock, and fence are complete, we are able to begin serious work on restoration of the yard. I hauled dirt to fill in low spots, transplanted 3 shrubs to new locations, and repotted a few plants. A...

Micro and Macro Ecosystems

Now this is cool….. Terrie McCook DePerro and I sat on the beach today and talked about the earth’s water cycle as it moves about the planet, watering, cleansing, renewing the earth…. It is the circulatory system, the heart and pulse of the earth....