sing like wildflowers

My full and kooky life as a homeschooling mommy to 2 great kids, raising a child with HLHS (Hypolastic Left Heart Syndrome), coping with depression, following Jesus, and being much too camera happy.

Category: Nature observations and thoughts

  • This is crazy! Our community trees are fruitless Mulberries. This whole time, like 11 years, we’ve been seeing them everyday. đŸ˜‚ Now we know what kind of trees they are. Lol. Shaking my head… so silly. Thank you, everyone, for your comments, suggestions, and offers to help send the leaves to us. Appreciate you all!!

  • At our 4-H meeting tonight, the science teacher brought in silkworms to show the youth with cups for youth to take some silkworms home for observation. From what we’ve learned tonight, they will only eat mulberry leaves, do not need water, will eventually make a cocoon, become flightless moth, lay eggs, and then die. Next…

  • Lambs feast on these grass seeds and its fat gives them energy. They are also known as animated oat, wild oats, or sterile oats. Seeing a pasture abundant with these delicate gives my heart peace! Lambs loving the pasture and hanging out together as a flock. It is hard to identify which one is the…

  • No pictures of lambs today. They didn’t feel social at all and even couldn’t be bothered with alfalfa hay either. Unbelievable! They adore alfalfa hay. Last week we got closer to the lambs and even hand fed 2 of them, but today was a whole different story. Plus, Ellis has been feeling under the weather…

  • On March 11th, Ellis removed some leaves from this succulent plant and propagated 3 of its leaves in the soil. We had realistic expectations: they could either grow or flop. But we had nothing to lose in trying. Halfway through the month, I couldn’t help myself and tugged at the leaves to see if they…