• Flower Blooms Bring Bees

    Flower Blooms Bring Bees

    I’m loving all of the blooms that I’m surrounded by this spring! The end of May and June has brought an abundance of floral, arboreal, and herbal blooms here in Brooklyn. Thanks to gardens and green spaces at parks, parkways, the beach, and people’s yards — we’ve got so much of nature’s beauty to appreciate…

  • A Midsummer Symphony

    A Midsummer Symphony

    Cicadas replace the sounds of birds on a summer morning,Crickets and grasshoppers sing their nightly symphonies;Sounds that simply lull you to sleep. As you walk around,as you sit on the porch or the stoop,the liveliness of the invisible critters becomes the background noiseof your environment. Rattles, whistles, and chirps remind us that no matter what,…