Another year has passed since I wrote my last post. The year has been hard not only me but on the whole world due to COVID. It was also the year when I lost my other four-legged son Matt on A...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-fresh-start.html
It has been more than a year since I last wrote a post. And, within that time so many things happened to drastically change my life and outlook. On March 10, 2019 my first son, my beloved Casp...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2020/03/what-sad-and-eventful-year-and-it-is.html
This blog is about gardening. But, today I am not going to talk about gardening but a wonderful creation. As you might remember from my others posts, I have two dogs. They are (or were) literall...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2019/01/casper-and-tim-maher.html
It has been since ten months that I am away from this blog. It is because I now have a baby, well she has already grown to an eighteen month old toddler. It was easier to do some blogging when s...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2018/12/end-of-year-2018.html
An epic battle has started; the battle between spring and winter. As spring peeks from around the corner, winter jumps back into the arena with mighty force. A bright blue spring sky with t...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2018/02/an-epic-battle-has-started-battle.html
The weather has become mellow, in the past one week, with temperature rising above 40 or 50 degree Fahrenheit in the morning. All the snows have melted, and green grasses peeking out from here a...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2018/01/is-spring-around-corner.html
I am participating in Weekend Journal of Art hosted by St. Germain's . This was a picture drawn and painted by me when I was very young. Thus, you see what I call "youngish" or "childish...
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Do you know of an animal that is indestructible? Neither space, nor radiation, atomic blast, high pressure or temperature as low as minus 325 degree Fahrenheit can kill it? If you don't know abo...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2018/01/an-unusual-vegetable-plant-and-big.html
Wishing all my readers a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Very Happy New Year. I woke up to a white Christmas, my favorite. But, my four-legged baby has been having some emergencies since F...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2017/12/merry-christmas.html
National Audobon Society along with National Geographic, Cornell's Lab of Ornithology and others have declared 2018 "The Year of the Bird" to mark the centennial of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act...
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I want a garden like this . Do you know many of our common garden flowers and vegetables like Roses, Onion, Garlic, Poppy, various nuts, etc, originally came from Central Asian countries like Af...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2017/12/kabuls-peaceful-garden.html
It snowed on Saturday, December 9, and it was the first snow of the season. It came heavy, and snowed from around ten-thirty in the morning till about eleven in the night. Nothing is so pretty a...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2017/12/first-snow-of-year-of-2017.html
St.Germain is holding a weekend journal page on Art. I can tell that she is a great artist by looking at her writings, photos, art-work, etc on her blog. I love anything beautiful, artistic, cr...
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I cannot escape them no matter what sorts of bird-feeders I put up. There are lots of them in my neighborhood. They are cute and adorable but when they hog the feeders, birds cannot come near. A...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2017/12/no-escape.html
Someone is coming to my garden, and destroying the fence and bird-feeder poles. I live in one of those dark-brown (almost blackish) areas of the map (below). So, no wonder bears come to our gard...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2017/11/who-is-invading-my-garden.html
When did I write last for this blog? I do not even remember. Was it in 2016? 2017 passed by so fast that I can almost tell what I did for each day as the last eleven months seemed like just the ...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2017/11/story-of-my-life-in-2017-and-root.html
I have been away from the blog-world for a long time. So, I should first apologize to my regular readers. Life is a bit crazy this year as my university is having lots of changes. Being a full-ti...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2017/05/ferns-and-more-ferns.html
Winter came forcefully on Saturday. Rain, sleet, ice, squall, blizzard, everything was happening together. One moment it was squall; with heavy wind it turned into blizzard. Then, ice-balls were...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2016/12/some-of-winter-birds-putting-up-show.html
I usually get winter blues, every year, as the gardening period comes to an end. This year is no exception. What is it in gardening that makes us happy? Is it because we are surrounded by green ...
We had our first snow on this past Saturday night (November 19). The rain turned into snow though the temperature was about thirty-seven degree Fahrenheit. It was a very strange weather phenomen...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-first-day-of-snow-in-2016.html
I have been away from the blog for a long time as I needed to rush overseas, due to family emergencies, on August 12. I was away from my garden, during the peak growing, blooming and harvesting ...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-beautiful-fall.html
I'm joining in the memes hosted by Eileen , Rambling Woods , St Germain's and Today's Flowers meme. Look what I found on my parsley plants :-D. These are the caterpillars of Black Swa...
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I continue with the theme creatures in my garden. In the first post , I posted pictures of the creatures. In this post, I tried to capture their actions in videos. I am not a great video maker; ...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2016/07/creatures-in-my-garden-part-2.html
I continue with the theme creatures in my garden. In the first post , I posted pictures of the creatures. In this post, I tried to capture their actions in videos. I am not a great video maker; ...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2016/07/creatures-in-my-garden-part-2_30.html
When we first moved into this house, about seven years ago, there were hardly any interesting birds or other creatures. A groundhog used to come to eat all the pears that have fallen down from t...
https://world-and-novice-naturalist.blogspot.com/2016/07/creatures-in-my-garden-part-1.html