THE U.P. Is the upper peninsula of Michigan. People who live there are called Yoopers. I’m lucky I have a cousin who is a Yooper. We came to this cool peninsula to visit her. We got to help take care of her donkeys Zack and Pearl. They loved to get out of their pen to … Continue reading Out of Texas to the UP
Nature
I work in ecological restoration in Wisconsin and Australia.
Out of Texas to the Duluth Minnesota and Gooseberry Falls State Park
We rushed passed southern Minnesota stopping briefly in Waseca MN, and the city of Minneapolis. Then we went to Duluth to give my Australian friend a glimpse of Lake Superior. Unfortunately when we stopped at Thompson Hill our view was obscured by the smoke from the Canadian wild fires. The view from Thompson Hill obscured … Continue reading Out of Texas to the Duluth Minnesota and Gooseberry Falls State Park
Out of Texas on to Minnesota.
We went from Hannibal to Ames, Iowa. We drove past miles of corn fields all higher than knee high. In Minnesota we used to say corn needed to be knee high by the 4th of July. It’s not quite July yet. After an overnight and a visit with an outlaw at the marvelous Synthesis photo … Continue reading Out of Texas on to Minnesota.
Maintaining a Nature Reserve
Everyday my Australian partner and I spend two volunteer hours trying to fight back against invasive plants in Wilson Reserve (A nature preserve in Melbourne, AU) and the bush along the Yarra River next to the Reserve. Melbourne water has invested a lot in planting native vegetation along the river, but has no funds to … Continue reading Maintaining a Nature Reserve
Paintings Visions from Two Continents Chapter 24 to the End.
When the neighbor who lived next door saw this painting he said, "Why, that's just beautiful. I guess I've never looked at willows before." The he laughed, "Well if a farmer spent all his time looking at trees, he'd never get his work done."
Paintings from Visions from Two Continent Chapters 22-23
My first attempt never got finished.I tried to paint myself and the children. It was a large painting a worked and reworked it. It never seemed right.
Little Six Legs by Sheila Buchanan Buell – Chapter 5 Singing Cousins
Then scritch, scritch, scritch went the brown grasshopper, as he rubbed his back legs against his wings. That is the way he sang this song.
Little Six Legs by Sheila Buchanan Buell – Chapter 6 Spiders
Oh no -, here are two ants caught in a spider web. Does one have a red spot on it?”
Little Six Legs by Sheila Buchanan Buell Chapter 4 Monarch Butterfly
“Please, please,” communicated a little vibration above her. “Please do not touch that little yellow egg. I am the mother monarch butterfly. I laid that egg there.”
Little Six Legs by Sheila Buchanan Buell-Chapter 3 Dragonfly
“I am a nymph, but I do not hurt ants. I am a dragonfly nymph,” said the animal.
Visions from Two Continents. 