Untimely meditations

One man's thoughts, observations and rants

Tag: garden safari

  • Fall

    Fall

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    Joop Beris
    in

    I like the fall, when the leaves turn from green to beautiful yellows, reds and light browns. Warm afternoons but chilly mornings. Gathering acorns and chestnuts. And course, fall is also the time of spiders. Morning dew makes their webs clearly visible. During a walk yesterday, I snapped this beautiful spider which I believe to…

  • Mayfly

    Mayfly

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    by

    Joop Beris
    in ,

    One of the things I like to do, is find animals in and around my house. Usually they are insects but I’ve been surprised early in the morning by a hare that was sitting in my driveway. A couple of days ago, I caught this mayfly sitting on the side of my car as it…

  • Fortunately, not all blue tit nests fail

    Fortunately, not all blue tit nests fail

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    by

    Joop Beris
    in ,

    In a post on the blog “Why Evolution Is True“, I saw the sad announcement of a failed blue tit nest. While the end of young life is always sad, I’d like to balance things out by saying that our blue tit nest has done okay. The nest is empty now and all three chicks…