Happy Butterfly 

Considering a screened-in butterfly house?

It is spring and our butterfly gardens are coming alive. My landscape includes host plants for dozens of local species (that is nerd...

What a unique Holy Week this is. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the world is opting to social distance and shelter in place...

These days are strange. Coronavirus is making its way around the globe and we are finding ourselves unsure at best and terrified at...

I've abandoned certainty for a gentle, loving peace.

In my heart I'm a vegan, in practice a vegetarian, and in reality more of a flexitarian (primarily vegetarian but meat/fish on occasion)....

Freedom, Focus and Daily Decisions.

Attention theology geeks, this is heady and controversial, but it is heavy on my heart. I do not aim to offend, just to be honest. I love...

My first 40 years on earth did not exemplify serenity. I intend to change that for the next 40. My personality is assertive. Many people...

When I first began my south Florida butterfly garden, I included a plant called a pipevine to attract a specific black and yellow...

Some people collect plates, shot glasses, baseball cards or tchotchkes. I collect butterflies. I prefer the living kind (no judgement...

I decided in my early twenties that I didn't want to work full-time for someone else until I was in my sixties. I wanted my time to be my...

This is a moth larva/caterpillar. I only know this through experience. In this picture it is eating my Desert Rose, but it is commonly...

We swim in a consumer culture like fish who don't know they are in water. The devious appeal of media and advertisements combined with...

This is the story of how we quit our jobs and do what we love, and there's a Tiny House.

You know butterflies drink from flowers. But, did you know they drink from lots of other stuff too? Some butterflies drink from rotting...

Every morning I read in my garden with a cup of coffee. It stabilizes me and helps me meditate on the good things in life and the good...