Groundhogs and bamboo and squash bugs, oh my!
Challenges, gardening challenges! Last fall we thought we had Wilbur living under the garage for the winter, and that was kinda cute and all, and one groundhog doesn’t eat that […]
Category Archives: Ecology
Assateague Island National Seashore
One day while we were at the beach, we went to Assateague Island National Seashore. We could see the northern most end of the island from our back door, right […]
Lots of interesting animals along the shore of the bay
Spending a week right on the Sinepuxent Bay just across from Assateague Island and then the Atlantic Ocean, we got to see lots of the animals there. I never knew […]
What I never knew about horse shoe crabs
I knew they are one of the oldest living creatures, (them and cockroaches) that have survived in the same form for thousands of years. I knew there is nothing edible […]
Blessed with beauty and wildlife all around
I am blessed with the ability to still be able to maintain my yard and (modified) garden while getting old(er.), with a little help. I’m blessed to live in a […]
Now about Wilbur……….
Last fall I wrote a couple blogs about our resident groundhog (thief) Wilbur. https://sarasinart.net/2016/11/26/wilbur-wrote-a-blog/ Well, now there is more story about Wilbur, and I need to especially say that he is […]
Bamboo…….er, bird issues
In a previous post, I talked about the hundreds of birds coming to roost in my bamboo each night. https://sarasinart.net/2017/04/18/big-bird-problem/ The guano that that many birds produce can cause serious […]
Big bird problem
Well, not a BIG bird problem, like there’s no big yellow guy here from Sesame Street. It’s a big BIRD problem. For several weeks, several hundred black birds have been […]
You can learn so much working in the garden
I have a fenced in area that’s sort of rabbit proof. Other years I used to cover it with cardboard in the fall to keep all sort of extraneous weeds […]
Working in the garden….in February.
For anybody who says climate change doesn’t exist, or, worse yet, that it doesn’t matter, you should have seen me the last 2 days working in the garden, at 65 […]
