Notes from the Back Woods

Artemis 2 Lunar Mission

Today the Artemis lunar mission is set to launch, and I am praying all goes well. We have learned a lot since the first lunar missions decades ago and there is much to look...

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Giant Swallowtail Butterflies

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Cuban Tree Frogs

I spotted this little illegal alien the other day when I was moving boards that were stacked up against the house. This is a Cuban tree frog and it is labeled an invasive...

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Spiderwort is the Bees’ Knees

The best time to be in Florida is when the spiderwort, a variety of tradescantia blooms. It is typically covered with honey bees and native bees gathering its abundant pollen,...

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Air plants

The air plants on the pecan tree are sending up these red stems … soon a few purple petals will come out.I use this pecan tree as a nursery for different kinds of native air...

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Loquats

Twice a year we get a crop of loquats- sometimes called Japanese Plums. They are very good but the mockingbirds, woodpeckers, opossums, raccoons, and jays think so as well.Ours...

Recipes

Simple Iron Skillet Peach Cobbler

Sue’s kitchen

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A Strange Sort of Web

Bowl and Doily Spiders

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Of air plants and lichens

A pecan tree I planted several years ago has become a nursery of sorts for my efforts to propagate and learn about the air plants so common here in Florida. I you don’t have to...

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Armadillo Dilly Bars

Just kidding… it was cold