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Melissa | July 27, 2010
God has given all creatures a line of defense, something to give them a better chance of survival. And lately I’ve become intrigued by seeing evidence of this on our nature walks.
For instance below you will see a picture I took at our last Nature Club meeting. Notice the tiny red and black bugs.
But especially [...]
Melissa | March 9, 2010
Today we took a nature walk at a local park to hunt for early signs of spring. If you’d like to read more about that and see all our photos, head over to my post at Shining Dawn Books! But I just had to share this photo here of a beautiful Snowdrop flower we found. [...]
Melissa | August 16, 2009
It is only by chance that you may come across an opportunity to observe one of the more beautiful moths in creation. Hiding behind the shadows of nightime, they are only coming awake as we are going to sleep. But as chance has it, or Divine intention, you can observe such beauty as is found [...]
Melissa | August 2, 2009
We were taking a nature walk with my Dad yesterday and the rain started to drizzle lightly, which it had been doing off and on all day. We came upon one of my Dad’s garden flowers (Rose of Sharon) and noticed this little critter tucked away inside.
The bumble was holding on to the "style" part of [...]
Melissa | July 25, 2009
While at nature club the other day I took a macro photo of a new wildflower so that when I got home I could look it up and identify it. When I uploaded my photos I realized that on this particular photo a little buzzing Halictid bee was caught in action too! Please click on [...]
Melissa | June 15, 2009
Two interesting news articles regarding nature have been passed my way recently and I wanted to share.
First there was recently a report on Good Morning America on how scientists are starting to look more at ants to learn about improving our traffic systems. Seems ants really know how to cooperate and work together to make things [...]
