Eastern tiger swallowtail on cone flower ...

Tree peonies recovering from rain ...

Poem, "So Simple, Summer Love" (c) constance lee menefee

Painted turtles on a small log in a duckweed world #Herps

Beseeching gray squirrel #Sqrlpix

You float & duckweed claims you: two leaves & a feather

Bullfrog of the day! Tuesday, 30 Dec 2025 *No actual bullfrogs were harmed. image was gently removed digitally and placed on a black background.

Have a turtle queue! #Herps

Poem, "Refurbishing Uncle Ho" (c) constance lee menefee www.vietmarkdmc.com/articles/han...

Our biggest security risk is POTUS.

Bullfrog (s) of the day! Monday, 29 Dec 2025

I always make waffles even when I think I want pancakes. I have a small round waffle maker that does a wonderful job. I use oat flour, eggs, Greek yogurt as main ingredients.

I woke up at 4:00 am today. Normally I sleep reasonably well & waking up at o'dark hundred is not an issue <I KNOW, 10s of 100s of people want to/have to get up early> Waking up out of pattern is sucky. That's all.

Lichen on Heritage® river birch bark

I am an olde white woman. I pay attention to everything, which can be exhausting sometimes. I guarantee that grocery shopping in a store with more than 25%(and that is stretching it) white shoppers is just not any fun.

Gray squirrel channels Andy Warhol ... #Sqrlpix

December is a challenging month - for a list of reasons, not the least of which was my husband's death 13 Dec 2021.

"Really?" #Sqrlpix

Yesterday (that would be 26 Dec 2025 in the Northern Hemisphere), I discovered that *The Tufted Titmouse* is a favorite bird of many people!

Bullfrog (s) of the day! Saturday, 27 Dec 2025

Silver-spotted skipper on red zinnia - classic skipper curved ends on each antenna and proboscis neatly packed away #Invertebrate

One more set of Tufted Titmice photographs 🪶

Once upon a time (before I got my longer telephoto lens), I came upon two Tufted Titmice bathing in shallows under a ring of cypress trees 🪶

Tufted Titmouse - little, spicy crested bird with intense eyes 🪶

Seriously, let's have more unpopular culture ...

Poem, "Midnight Sun" (c) constance lee menefee

Bullfrog of the day! Friday, 26 Dec 2025

OK - finished with avatar changes right now ... back to a bullfrog!

Chickadee in a holly tree 😃 (2022)

@mac-b5.stickimporters.com 🎄💚 ❤️🐸 I apparently do not have Merry Stickmas without bullfrogs 💞

Bullfrog of the day! Thursday, 25 Dec 2025

Merry Christmas ... and, please, Peace ... ❤️💚 (I added color pencil to one of my black ink and pen drawings from the deep CLM Archives.)

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Panel of Pink Peonies ...

Solitary Sandpiper (July 2023) An infrequent visitor to Spring Grove Cemetery - what fun! 🌿🪶

... one Moon waxing and waning over one Earth ... this ought to be enough to unite us all ... 📷 26 Dec 2013

Moths I have met (& photographed) Top row - beautiful wood nymph moth, cecropia moth, arcigera flower moth Bottom row - yellow-collared flower moth, pale beauty moth, clymene moth 📷 #Invertebrates

Bullfrog of the day! Wednesday, 24 Dec 2025

Cats like Christmas, too! ❤️💚🎄

Merry Christmas Eve! 💚❤️🎄

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Great Blue Heron coming in for a landing 🪶

Hydrangea - Brown sepals are part of sterile flowers with dried fertile flowers ...

Clouded Underwing moth on a ceiling #Invertebrates

Wild Turkey 🪶

Shhhh ... Eastern Chipmunk hiding (some past season) #Sqrlpix

Avatar change notice for those who need to know ...

Textures of life ...

Bullfrog of the day! Tuesday, 23 Dec 2025