Pollinators At Work

By Jim | Published July 4, 2015

Late last fall, I began digging and planting a new Butterfly Garden, just outside my front porch at my rural Missouri home. This spring, it still needs some more plants added and some more work, but it is already attracting pollinators, such as this Bumble Bee: Besides a lot of Bumble Bees, a few butterflies […]

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Blues A’Blazin

By Jim | Published September 7, 2014

On a recent visit to the nearby natural prairie, I captured some macro images of one of my favorite prairie wildflowers, the Blazing Star (Liatris pycnostachya), also know as Gayfeather or Button snakeroot: Standing at 5-feet tall, and a vivid blue-purple color, a landscape of Blazing Stars is always a treat. They are one of […]

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