In Dec 2018, I watched a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers forage for hackberries and do some acrobatics - I had to stand in a road to take any photographs! #SpringGroveCemetery 🌿 🪶

The world is full of marvels! White-breasted Nuthatch display 1. Nuthatch sees another nuthatch and starts to fluff up 2. Both nuthatches face to face, display wings and puff up at each other 3. Nuthatches race to opposite sides of tree trunks and hid their adorable faces .... and repeat 2 & 3 🪶

Bit of magical moss and lichen 💚

A hot Summer day with touch-me-not flowers and a see-me-not Ruby-throated Hummingbird 🪶 🌿 🥴

Mute Swans 🪶

Roses ...

Man (director of the Kentucky Reptile Zoo) was bitten by a Jameson's mamba - responders administered antivenin - man survives - KY BD of Emergency Medical Services has slapped the paramedics bc policy changed 2 yrs ago, and ONLY wilderness paramedics can administer antivenom. Licenses on the line.

All Hail, true bugs with sucking mouthparts! Large milkweed bugs with various instars ... #Invert #TrueBugs

@mac-b5.stickimporters.com Doggy Bed, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo, duvet ....

Windows 10 people: On the updates/security page [where it nags you to go to Win 11] - it lets you enroll in a year of security updates (thru 10/13/2026) - it is free if you have kept current with your security updates. It is a simple process - use MS acct info. This buys you another year w/ Win 10)

Bullfrog of the day! Friday, 26 Sept 2025

Painted dogs - African wild dogs (Cincinnati Zoo) #Mammals

Goodnight dear ones 💚 💜

Poem, "Breakaway Rules" (c) constance lee menefee

Wood poppy ...

This tree has the most fascinating series of holes and knots ...

North American river otter standing by glass looking at the people #CincinnatiZoo

Mallard duckling in the fuzzy-becoming-real-feathers stage 🪶

Canvasback female, portrait of grace 🌿 🪶

It is one of the hellebores - maybe a holly leafed hellebore - some varieties are called Lenten roses & bloom early. They don't have petals - rather the have sepals which can be in many colors & usually change color once flower is fertilized.

Arcigera flower moth on asters 9-25-2020

Disproven is not the same as unproven.

Widow skimmer dragonfly #Invert 🌿

Bullfrogs! 💚😃

Bullfrog of the day! Thursday, 25 Sept 2025

House Sparrow silliness ... 😆

Wood Ducks* from the CLM Archives 🪶 *In Swan Lake at the Cincinnati Zoo

Ice forming shapes around a dead plant .. February 2023

Green of July 2023

Cone flower ...

Our minds <brain + ineffable movement of spirit, experience> can be quirky. I love lichen. I also love learning names of things and their relationships to each other. I am simply enjoying lichen. I apologize to it and explain I can enjoy more of it without the pressure of introductions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Blue dasher female dragonflies 🌿 #Invert #Dragonflies

Jelly ears up in a mossy tree ...

Eastern Kingbirds - a tyrant flycatcher with suberb aerial skills & a seriously bossy attitude Insects, other arthropods plus anything they can catch/kill, are mainstays of the nesting diet with fruits in migration and overwintering grounds in (mainly in Western Amazonia) 🌿🪶

Mute Swans 🪶

Bullfrog of the day! Wednesday, 24 Sept 2025

A teeny blue sky heart on a cottonwood leaf ...

Scrolling through some photos ... this bullfrog made me laugh - toes!!

Ephemeral, reflecting ...

Trees bereft of leaves in front of evergreens ...

Oh! Hello, deer. #Mammals

I kept changing camera angles & this gray squirrel would move to keep his prize hidden! Hackberry tree ... #Sqrlpix

An elderly pond slider was particularly interested in me - the leaves did not care one way or the other ... 🐢

Poem, "Windy Walk" (c) constance lee menefee

Poem, "Life Salad" (c) constance lee menefee

Allium ...

Bullfrog of the day! Tuesday, 23 Sept 2025

Perfect reflections - turtles on a stone ledge

Time to re-read Franz Kafka's The Trial.

Red-tailed Hawk in Norway Spruce (6/2019) I heard the indignant (loud) sounds of Blue Jays, Common Grackles, Red-winged Blackbirds and assorted smaller birds at the top of a spruce tree. I saw some flumping motions of branches and flashes of creamy-white. 1/n