Simple Butterfly Symmetry

| August 14, 2010

We finished up our butterfly and moth focus this week in school.  With my youngest (Kindergartner) I’ve concentrated on the very basics of these wonderful creatures.  And one concept we’ve learned about was symmetry.  Aside from bringing up the word “symmetry” to her as often as possible during the past two weeks, the three main [...]

Defense Mechanisms

| 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. [...]

A Snowdrop for a Honeybee

| 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. [...]

Admiring the Lovely Luna Moth

| 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 [...]

An Umbrella for a Bumblebee

| 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 [...]

Cool Photo!

| 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 [...]