The Nessie in my yard
The Nessie in my non-Scottish yard. A Nessus Sphinx. The moth drinks nectar, which gives it powerful flight just as spinach gave Popeye muscles.
The Nessie in my non-Scottish yard. A Nessus Sphinx. The moth drinks nectar, which gives it powerful flight just as spinach gave Popeye muscles.
The ditch lily, sometimes called an outhouse
lily, is a vigorous orange-flowered daylily that finds a home in our road ditches. When I spot them, I sing a corrupted Beach Boys song, “Ditch baby, ditch baby, give me your hand. Give me something that I can remember.”
An American Robin egg on the ground. There’s a story there, a mystery.