A Pastoral Year – Summer – William Hamilton Gibso Farther on we see the lily-pond, with its surrounding swamp and its legion of crowded water-plants. Here are rank, massive beds of swamp-cabbage, and lofty cat-tails by the thousand among the bristling bogs of tussock-sedge and bulrush. Here are calamus patches, and alder thickets, and sedges without…
Category: Butterflies in the Garden
A Pastoral Year – Spring – William Hamilton Gibson
Published 1880 AS far as the eye can reach, the snow lies in a deep mantle over the cheerless landscape. I look out upon a dreary moor, where the horizon melts into the cold gray of a heavy sky. The restless wind sweeps with pitiless blast through shivering trees and over bleak hills, from whose crests,…
Bird and Butterfly Sightings in My Mississippi Garden by Date – 2024
Northern Mockingbird My Most Constant and Loyal Bird Friend in Mississippi I moved to this house in Mississippi almost a year ago, and I was surprised that for months, the only bird that frequented my yard was a mockingbird. On a brutally cold day in January, I went into my backyard, and he was there…