I am so excited, my dear friends from Italy are arriving today to spend a few days with me. It is going to be wonderful to see them again. W...

We have many various species here, this is the Raspolia Cone Headed Katydid Tettigoiidae tylopsis Grass Katydid Concephalus caudalis Mead...

The water lily family, Nymphaeaceae, is an old and evolutionarily primitive one, and is grouped with buttercups (Ranunculus) and magnolias i...

Do you know how small 1mm is? It is tiny, minute, extremely small!! I noticed these eggs on the Transvaal Gardenia bud and that is the size ...

I am processing my tree and plant pictures but discovered that I did not have a shot of the Transvaal Gardenia bud before it opens. Knowing ...

Garden snails are the fastest species and they can move about 55 yards per hour. While they don’t move fast, they do move at a very steady p...

For the final chapter in this series I thought I would just show some of the water features in the park and let the pictures speak for thems...

Because we are blessed with the most beautiful climate here, most of our activities are based around the outdoors, including in winter, when...

These pictures were taken at various times. They are the most beautiful, blue skies. This one I took while on vacation with Gaelyn . We wer...