Three small jars filled to the brim with freshly made ruby red rhubarb compote. Small pieces of rhubarb are next to the jars, all resting on a marble pastry slab.
Rhubarb compote. 🤤 #cooking #homestead #springtime #treats #homemade
Six garden beds in the square foot garden method pictured on a sunny day. Potatoes, herbs, tomatoes, and garlic are in some of the beds. Two longer beds on the left hand side have freshly turned dirt ready for planting.
Garden update! Tomatoes, herbs, sweet potatoes, and potatoes doing amazing. 1st round of beans washed out, so restarted. Scored a bunch of root veggie seeds today on sale, too. 🥰 #veggiegarden #growyourownfood #gardeners #gardening
Light pink azaleas in full bloom beside a lake. The elegant flowers are growing in big clusters on long, slender stems. The water behind them reflects the sun, tree line, and blue sky with clouds.
Good morning! Enjoy these gorgeous azaleas growing at one of our parks. 🥰🥰🥰 #azalea #nature #naturewalk #goodmorning #goodmorningbluesky
Love Black Rock Mtn! So many gorgeous views at that park. 🙂
Garden is still sleepy, but starting to wake up a little at a time. #garden #gardening #veggiegarden
A brown headed cowbird stands in short green grass and regards the photographer through a car window.
Brown headed cowbird landed on my car as soon as I parked TWO separate days/times/places this week. Stood at driver side windshield staring in. Not sure what to make of it. This one hopped down when I grabbed my phone camera, but still stared. 😳🤔 #cowbird #birding #birder #nature #birds
A cluster of yellow and orange trumpet vine flowers nestled among green leaves and tangled vines.
Found a beautiful trumpet vine at eye level! These native plants are fantastic nectar sources for bees and hummingbirds. #nativeplants #wildflower #springflowers #flowers
Lyreleaf sage (Salvia lyrata). Working on finding historical documents about this herb. It's mentioned in passing in King's American Dispensatory but I'm curious. #nativeplants #herbs #herbalist
Thank you.
They do look like dandelions at first glance, don't they? 😂
A black and tan catahoula leopard dog wearing a tan harness sits next to a bridge in soft morning light and looks at the camera. He is relaxed and happy. It is spring time and green trees and blue sky are in the background.
Happy trails, my love. I thought I still had many years with you by my side. You deserved beautiful days without number, but the best I could do was to let you cross with gentleness in the face of what was to come. Thank you for being steadfast, always. #rainbowbridge #love #loyalty #dogs
Fallen log in a sunny woodland. There is an oak seedling about a foot high beside the log. On the twigs of the seedling are two white fluffy balls with pink spots that are galls for wool sower wasps.
Wasp galls on an oak sappling from today's hike. These come from wool sower wasps, I think. The wasp larvae are inside. #oaktrees #hike #naturewalk
Planting our garden this weekend. The Goblin (3yrs old) planted this like a pro! All by herself. #veggiegarden #sweetpotato #gardening
Red-wing blackbird flock in the front yard this morning. They are so noisy and I love them. 😂 #birding #birds #nature
Surprise bucket list bird encounter today: sandhill cranes!!!! Especially unusual because we are not technically in their migration path. Around 150 of them at a local lake that's been drained for dam repairs. #birding #birds #lifelist #surprise #sandhillcranes
Got some uppies in this morning. Tennessee Rock Trail at Black Rock Mountain. #mountainviews #mountains #northGA #hikingadventures
A deep, tranquil river reflects the blue of the sky as it stretches into the distance. Bare, winter trees line the banks and a few large stones stand out of the water. There is a little snow on the stones in the shadows.
Yesterday was a quiet walk along the river for some #birding. Mostly saw chickadees, white breasted nuthatches, and cardinals; but also a red-headed woodpecker and a hermit thrush. Heard some other woodpeckers across the river, too- possibly downies. #nature #river #hike #parks #outdoors #wildlife
Three green biodegradable bags full of bottles, cans, and other trailside trash collected during a hike. The bags are placed on the ground next to a hiker's yellow laced boots, on top of tree roots crossed over each other like the letter x. Fallen leaves cover the ground.
Why y'all gotta be trashy? 🙄 #leaveonlyfootprints #pollution #cleanup #environment #nature #trail #hiking #naturelovers #conservation
Unwrapping my little newsprint packet of seeds = unbelievably satisfying. New seeds gets me as excited as a little kid! #gardening #gardenplanning #seeds #veggiegarden #growyourownfood
Next installment in my Southern Herbalism series. Traditional uses of pokeweed. #herbs #herbalism #nativeplants #appalachia
Do you love waterfalls? I headed over to Alabama and enjoyed a beautiful misty day and three waterfalls at DeSoto State Park, followed by a hike down to the base of DeSoto Falls. Here are details about trails and what to expect if you go! #waterfalls #stateparks #hiking #outdoors #nature
Orange shelf lichen that look like turkey tail on a fallen limb. The fungus has larger fans on a knob in the foreground, and small ruffled of new growth on the rest of the limb in the background.
Some pretty orange shelf fungus. 😍 Everything was wintry gray, but not these little show offs! #fungi #mushrooms #nature #naturephotography #orange
A misty view of DeSoto Falls in Fort Payne, Alabama. The water fall is framed by high stone cliffs and empties into a beautiful pool of blue water, which is very striking against the gray skies and gray stone cliffs. In the foreground the pool is framed by brown, gray, and tan winter brush and bare branches.
DeSoto Falls in Alabama was beautiful in the mist and rain today. Trail to the base of the falls is very rocky but quite pretty. #waterfall #naturephotography #mist #forest #alabama #hiking #rainyday #outdoors #nature
No hiking today because the roads were icy, but I did work on my Southern Herbalism Project. If you are interested in learning about native plants and their herbal traditions, I hope you'll check it out. Today's article is about tulip tree. #herbalism #nativeplants #history #herbs
Been there! I set up a Substack last month and I'm trying to add that as an income stream. Hoping for a little more stability this year. 😔
A rock outcropping juts up on the leftvside of the scene, framed by pine trees on the right and an oak tree on the left. The skies are gray because of fog from a cloud bank, but warm sunlight highlights the stones, trees, and red dirt path winding through the trees.
Up in a cloud on Crowders Mtn, NC. From last August. King's Mountain State Park is busy and popular, but I'd love to go back and explore more of the trails. #RockinTuesday #NorthCarolina #mountains #fog #nature #trails #outdoors #hikingadventures
The lake was so still today. Saw a couple of diving ducks and some wrens. #hiking #lake #morningwalk #goodmorning
Picture of a smiling woman on a mountain in a purple raincoat with the hood up. The weather is very windy and there is lots of fog.
I almost forgot to say Happy New Year! Wishing everyone an awesome year full of adventures. Who cares about bad weather? That's what coats are for! #HappyNewYear #adventures #optoutside
