Bakeries, places of heart, solace and happiness where all go seeking connection with a good world

New squeaky toys can still send elderly small dogs to become crazy

Neighborhood hens at church

Nature Painting each humble, now dancing in the fog

Frigid air and magical scenes collide and reward those venturing out into nature. Each day the world changes and is waiting for us

Simple scenes, big skies, and subtle beauty lets the heart and mind soar and paths draw our footsteps to new destinations both real and imagined

Portrait of a Walla Walla onion. Note the quarter to show scale

The neighbors hens come over morning and evening and graze and eat worms in our bee-friendly clover and dandelion lawn- It has become the commons

The garbage to garden project in full summer/ the plants forging ahead and taking over the territory and hosting bees and beneficial insects- and vegetables feeding our bodies and souls. Compost fed and drip irrigated

Another busy native bee lady sporting pollen ‘chaps’ to provision her nest for the young she will never meet

Despite most black eyed Susan’s-Rudbeckias- being bee friendly this very popular cultivar, R. fulgida Goldstrum is not and is sadly quiet of bees and life

Casa Blanca lillies are a late lily season sumptuous lily- an epic of beauty, elegance and wafting fragrance

A simple patch of zinnias is a perfect place to butterfly watch, skippers too and bumblebees collecting pollen

An ultra green sweat bee- an Agapostemon- likely a male nectarine on a sunflower in the early evening

Sunflowers host so many bees and provide a perfect and ergonomic platform to bee watch. Bombus nevadensis— a worker

Pea fields ready for harvest with wild carrots looking on. So much to imbibe in the surrounding landscapes

Bumblebees are displayed vividly against the white colored flowers.

The humble snapdragon is bumblebee friendly. They are big and strong enough to pry the flower apart to access nectar and pollen

Eryngium amethystifolium has it all- and many eryngium are great garden subjects- beneficial insects, bees, cut flowers and dried flowers not to mention architectural appeal

Sunflowers are bee favorites- many species of bees are easily- and ergonomically observed