Today, I met the “Twisted Sisters” in the forest. I laced up my hiking boots and set out to find them in what the locals call the ‘mixed forest’. It’s the end of May but believe it or not, we had a heavy frost last night and many of the plants, the sumac and most of […]
My dad is a bee keeper. Today I went to his house and he showed me all of the honey he had harvested from the hives. He took the lid off of a 5 gallon bucket full of honey and there were 3 little bees struggling on top of the honey. They were covered in
Once upon a time, a man found a cocoon of a butterfly. He noticed that the cocoon had a small opening, so he sat to watch the process of transformation for several hours as the butterfly struggled to force its body through the little opening. Then, the struggle appeared to stop. It looked like it was stuck.
Have you heard of the Liana Vine? Some of you may know it as the vine that Tarzan swings upon. It is a really interesting part of the rainforest ecosystem and architecture. It roots at the ground level with a flexible bark like trunk and uses the trees around it so that it can grow towards the
