Summer is the time of the year when butterflies and moths are everywhere in our yard. Which means it is time to search for cool caterpillars! Today I went outside to check on our native passion flower vine and I noticed someone on our deck rail I’d never seen before. …
Today I had an amazing encounter with a family of turkeys in our yard. Two baby turkeys and their mother spent more than an hour relaxing and walking around. I wrote all about the encounter here (turkey vs. bird garden statue) but as I was writing I kept wondering what …
It was a warm spring day in Asheville, North Carolina. I was yanking invasive English ivy off some of my trees when I spotted a huge brown cocoon attached to the trunk of a large cherry tree, only about 4 feet up from the ground. I could tell it was …