Boreas Pass in central Colorado is scenic, lovely, unspoiled and a call from nature to join her.

The Glover Gardens blog is back after a hiatus, sharing the positive outcome after we decided to Get On Up.

Frogs can and do freeze, including their hearts, and then thaw and get right back to living their everyday froggy life when it warms up. We’re doing the renewal pruning at Glover Gardens in our own efforts to get our green back.

We celebrate, honor and value birds, today and every day.

An article in the latest issue of The Shoofly Magazine beautifully captures the seemingly oppositional characteristics of nature and our relationship with it – peaceful but unpredictable, soothing, but sometimes dangerous – and brings back memories of falling trees.

A forgotten beauty showed its face in my backyard a few weeks ago, as this gorgeous walking iris woke up and bloomed for the first time in years.

Now is a good time for listening, and learning.
I hear you. #BlackLivesMatter

Winter will make way for spring, in many ways.

Hummingbirds work hard. They do what needs to be done.

…about mindfulness, and flowers, and tasting life…

twilight on the piersanta monica sunset the benediction Overrun with tourists and souvenir-hawking vendors, the Santa Monica Pier remains a worthy destination. The sunset guarantees it. Trust me on this. Note: because February is National Haiku Writing Month (NaHaiWriMo) and I’m a habitual haiku-er (is that…

A magnificent bighorn sheep posed for me, turning this way and that. He was either mildly amused or mildly annoyed, and we enjoyed a few moments together. Three haiku and these photos are the result.

Chipmunks posing in Park County, CO make for peaceful pictures.

Llamas and tractors and pastures, oh my! Another Colorado-inspired nature haiku from Glover Gardens.

Nature is all the entertainment we need here at Little House in the Rockies, our little cabin in Central Colorado. A visit from a cute little Peter Cottontail enabled a mid-hop bunny photo.

Everything in nature this spring seems brighter, fresher, more vibrant than usual. Like these turtle pals.

I think a group of swans did a performance just for me. As I stood and watched, they changed direction, got in position, and swam by in a line. MUST.WRITE.HAIKU.

An Earth Day celebration of nature-filled Butler Shores Metropolitan Park along Ladybird Lake in Austin.

A humble little poem welcoming spring’s call.

I got a new camera for Christmas, the first one ever that has interchangeable lenses that detach and rates a case instead of rambling about in the bottom of my purse like my previous little point-n-shoot models. A respectable camera. A DSLR.  I’m the family…