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On choosing to be grateful for what already IS, rather than complaining about what ISN'T.

Hello Hello Hivians I was out doing some business in one of our local towns up the coast called Leven, when I spotted this gate. Well to be honest I spotted the thistle shadow in the ground! Of course,

Rearing the Monarch Butterflies for the summer is over for this year. The last three chrysalis cracked open, and the butterflies emerged. This male was the last one to hatch. I woke up in the morning to

An early morning mountain view on our way out to a Papillon meeting. Problem 1. Lately the oil prices per barrel fluctuate wildly between high and low, as it is due to the USA-Iran war. It really hits

One of the things I learned as a child — out of necessity — was to be very VERY quiet!

Easy to get the blacksmiths into panic mode, just go near their nest. I know where they nest and I got them with their babies last spring season, and of course I posted it at the time. The one seemed convinced

Lately, I have been using Facebook more and it's a complete and total clown show!

Launch day is finally here! Walking with the Muse is out now—a collection of short stories more than thirty years in the making. Thank you for following along these last few weeks. Hive has been the incubator

I was zooming in on the Malachite Sunbird, when a noisy plane suddenly appeared. The bird flew away, and I decided to zoom in on the plane. Just as well as I did, as the pilot was doing stunts in the sky,

Sometimes, that's all you can do

When life seems chaotic and unsettled it becomes more important to have anchor points!

I just wrote a wonderful post. Well a fluffing wonderful post as far as I am concerned. It was my thought process of building a decision to either play a Fre...

We’re quickly approaching book-launch eve and those old-familiar butterflies are setting in. It’s been a pretty intense past few months of gathering stories together, working on the cover design concept,

Hello Hello Hivers, Hivians, and photography lovers across the chain! When I saw this week’s theme from @qurator was Green. magic thought I, as I didn't have to look very far. Living here in Scotland,

The gardens are winding down for the most part here in western N.Y. Yet the sunflowers are in full swing, ready to ring in the fall season. I may have shown that this sunflower was a volunteer that reached

Wrapping up the camping season

It rained in the morning, and later on after it stopped, Robby popped in for a bath. In here you will see a Cape Robin-Chat (Cossypha caffra) bathing, and also a Pied Crow (Corvus albus) taking off from

Some of us had early lives shaped by being "that weird kid in the corner."

My Lilly girl. Finally out of my slump. Digging out took a bit, but I did it. Luckily there was support from the wifey. Also had resources like the counselor at the VA. Then there's the fact I've gotten

The US is a mere 24 hours away from experiencing the beginning of what will be a major shift in transportation. However, you won’t hear much about it in the mainstream media—that is, unless it fails miserably.