5 onion rings positioned on a blue & beige plate

Busy season 😜 #medawislagrows purple onions for #medawislatastes onionrings for #medawislasights Olympic rings 😁🕊💜

An ice ring surrounds the half moon shining through black utility lines

Chopped peanuts top a spicy peanut sauce dripping down steamed bao buns on a blue & beige plate

A hand holds bao dough to dollop kaleidoscope filling before filling

The latest culinary exploration: worth the hype? Yes! Do it!

Happy New Year's Eve! #medawislasights moon ring and #medawislatastes bao with spicy peanut sauce

Fuchsia colored Symphyotrichum flowers with bright, deep orange centers, against a green background

Light purple Symphyotrichum with golden centers, against green background

Bright white Symphyotrichum with yellow centers, against green background speckled with more white asters

Trio of Symphyotrichum sp. All the Asters! Happy September frome Maine! #medawislasights

Purple onions are a new fav! With green tops from recent watering, they lay bulb forward on the dirt in the sun to cure

A bumble bee does her thing on a fuchsia new england aster

Purple onions (red bull variety) lay with green tops on garden mounds

Brasella alba "rubra" spinach climbs bamboo poles shooting out green leaves; gray fence and green hedge in background; green posts and wire fence in foreground

Around the homestead: harvested onions to cure in the week of no rain that continues the 2025 drought; bumbles smother blooming asters; the new spinach vine surprised with delight! #medawislagrows #medawislasights

Monarch feeds on a red zinnia in #Maine

Yellow green shishito peppers charred from the grill glisten with oil & salt before being devoured

Several multi-colored sunflowers line a flower patch, with rudbeckia & zinnia in the meix; beeblm and asters in the background

Subtle signs of summer surrendering to autumn... #medawislasights #medawislatastes #medawislagrows

A white-striped black butterfly sits on a field of green leaves in a garden

The white & black winds of a butterfly splay open on top of green leaves in a garden

This white admiral butterfly has seen better days...resting on gold beet leaf #medawislasights #medawislagrows

A gold, brown cicada shell remains clung to a gray felt bag

Green basil leaves drip from watering above a gold, brown cicada shell still clinging to a gray felt growbag

Cicada nymph exoskeleton 😎 #medawislasights

Red cardinal flowers pop next to purple blooming globe thistles in front of a background of green foliage

Beautiful flowers, fighting drought #medawislasights

Silver spot butterfly laps up necter from a purple beebalm flower

Bumblebees maneuver a purple blossoming blazing star flower

Birthday blooms! Butterflies & bee butts 😁💜🤣 #medawislasights

Red owl wax seal with blue green feather on teal cards lays on top of envelope addressed with teal script, on a table that's back lit

A jumping spider (quickly) approaches on a cushion (look right)

Blazing star flowers start to bloom fuchsia purple against green grass (and squash) background

Feeling the penpal love near my birthday! (Letter from sister missing do you personal info, but it matched blazing star that started to bloom! #penpals #medawislasights

America's daisy, fleabane, attracts the most tiny, interesting pollinators, like one on the far right flower that's white with a yellow center; background is green from meadow plants

A cedar waxwing, center, forages for ripe serviceberries in the green shrub; two larger elderberries on either side, and an orange zinnia dominates for the color pop on the lower right

The 5-pointed-star look of the milkweed flower powers mauve pink, back dropped by green leaves

Recent blooms, fruits and newest yard forager, cedar waxwing! #medawislasights

3 speckled eggs nested in brown, dry grass in the center of coiled up metal fencing

2 song sparrow nestlings smother each other, in a nest built inside coiled fencing, as they wait for parents to return with food, no doubt

Song sparrows #medawislasights #birds

A black caterpillar with white strip and orange spots muches up a fennel frond

How many ants do you see? Farming black aphids on green growth of a woody shrub

Yellow spider rests on a green leaf; purple geranium blooms in the background

A pink and yellow columbine flower held up by four extended fingers; green growth in the background

Small things! #medawislasights swallowtail caterpillars on fennel; an ants' aphid farm on elderberry; a (garden?) spider on aster; a columbine flower on fingers 🦋🌱🐜

Metal coils of a fence rolled up shelters a brown nest that cradles three speckled song sparrow eggs

Happy Father's Day to "The Conductor" song sparrow! #medawislasights #birds

A yellow Wilson's Warbler peeks out from shrubs

Here, too! 😁 #birds #medawislasights

A blue sky full of wispy clouds and two bald eagles

Blueberry flowers on a highbush that is all leafed-out, in the shrubbery

Surprise sunny day! Birding and gardening 🤘🐦‍⬛🌱😎 #medawislasights #medawislagrows #Maine

Junco! Perches, white belly forward, black head looking up with pink bill catching sunlight

Dark-eyed junco forages on ground with dead leaves all around

The original gangster angry bird! Northern Cardinal perches in a shrub, in the poring rain.

A white-throated sparrow rests on the ground that is starting the green

The week's borbs! #birdwatching #maine #medawislasights

Landscape of a wetland surrounded by evergreen trees, open water in the middle reflects the bluest sky above

Hiking in #Maine seeing tiny (not) pinecones from hemlock and alders; scat from moose, coyotes and snowshoe hares; the prettiest reindeer lichen and British soldiers; felt the drumming of two rough grouse and startled at least one other; forest bathed through a pine tree car wash #medawislasights

2024 Solar Eclipse: moon shadows the center of the sun as it passes over Mount Katahdin #Maine

Custom painted nails to celebrate total solar eclipse over #maine in 2024 (also a comet was visible, ring finger)

Moment of totality, 2024 Solar Eclipse

Happy Eclipse Anniversary (several days late) 🌞💜🤩 #medawislasights #maine #katahdin

Black-capped chickadee perches on stick that is stuck in a peanut butter feeder hanging in a bush

Tufted titmouse perches on a stick that is stuck in a peanut butter feeder hanging in a bush, while another titmouse feeds from the other side

Titmouse perches on a stick that is stuck in a peanut butter feeder hanging in a bush, facing camera to say, what?!

Time to stuff faces! #medawislasights

Male downy woodpecker clings to a branch in a shrub during an icy downpour

Here, too! And soggy birdies make me giggle #medawislasights

Male red winged blackbird briefly perches in a shrub

The red winged black bird has me fooled with his single note song! 🎶🐦‍⬛💜 #medawislasights

Downy woodpecker perches by a wooden feeder in a shrub

Female downy woodpecker (no red nap on head) looks away from camera in a shrub, behind a wooden feeder

Female downy woodpecker #medawislasights An American Timberdoodle woke me up this morning 😜🌲💜

Downy woodpecker hunkers down in spring snow storm at the peanut butter stick feeder

Too cold to go, or too good to leave? #medawislasights

Black-capped chickadees inspect the replenished peanut butter stick feeder in a shrub; snowy background.

February entertainment #medawislasights

In a shrub, a peanut butter feeder hangs between a male downy woodpecker and a Carolina wren; snowy background

Carolina wren foraging on fresh snowy ground

Male downy woodpecker resting in a branch of a shrub, and being a floof in the high winds & cold temps, with snowy background

Woodpeckers and wrens today! #gbbc #medawislasights

Coming close to the most species in one count always feels special! All the birds this weekend look fluffy due to sub-zero temperatures. #medawislasights

A Carolina Wren foraging under a feeder on fresh snow and in high winds

Me, too! There are tumble-wrens out there! 🤣🐦💜 #medawislasights

Borb of a Tifted Titmouse staring down the photographer while perched in a shrub.

Do you like birds, Albus? It's the great backyard bird count here! #medawislasights #gbbc

Female red-bellied woodpecker, north of range surprise visitor, clinging to branch in a shrub

Female red-bellied woodpecker, north of range surprise visitor, clinging to branch in a shrub, facing camera with head turned over back

Four of the 13 America Robins flock, borbs on the edge of a snowy roof

Female downy woodpecker eyeing a peanut butter stick bird feeder hanging in a shrub; snowy background

What a morning of birding so far! #gbbc #medawislasights