I love picking garden-fresh romaine for our lunch salad. I toss in a small handful of basil, some fresh mustard greens, maybe even a cherry tomato or two. Today I made a delicious version, complete with a buttery avocado half. Mmmm!

I knew the white rhinoceros was extremely endangered, but did you know there are only four of them left in the wild? The total, including those in zoos world-wide, numbers twelve!

We’ve decided to plant a garden this year; I’d forgotten how great it feels to prepare the soil and dream about creating our own backyard bounty.

Happy New Year! My husband and I just returned from our annual Christmas Show in Austin Texas, an intense event that takes us all the way through December 24th.

Yesterday my husband and I spent a couple of glorious hours at this wonderful park. It was literally rich with wildlife. 

On our last adventure north and our last rest stop in Florida I hopped back in the van, ready to shut the heavy metal door. “Oh my gosh!” I spotted a large tan tree frog hunched in the hollow of the door, just before I slammed it shut.

 We were visiting some relatives in New York recently and enjoying my sister in law’s birdfeeder visitors. My favorites were the colorful red topped woodpeckers, stuffing themselves on the suet Larry provided on the birdfeeder’s side.

A few days ago Ed and I were zooming across Florida on our way to Alabama. “I’ve never seen a bear here, even with all these ‘Bear Crossing’ signs,” I complained.

Ibis scurry across our neighbor’s lawn like a small herd of dinosaurs
from Jurassic Park. They are so common I don’t think twice about their
appearance.

I was quietly typing away at my computer this morning when a
movement caught my eye, just to my right – outside on the window.