I believe I have been doing Nature Notes on and off (lots of offs recently, can’t do everything!) since it began, and I thought it would be nice to do a small tribute to Michelle who runs this nature blog meme. She posts on a wide variety of topics, but you can check out a sample of her posts from the past year by clicking on any of these thumbnails:
Click on the first thumbnail to learn more about monarch butterflies. Did you know the blue jay is molting? Next to the blue jay – do you see those eggs? They are mallard eggs. And the caterpillar – it’s not just any caterpillar – that’s a monarch caterpillar. The oriole post also discusses fungus on trees. Michelle also knows about turtles; just ask the kids in her neighborhood. With the orange butterfly weed is a post on milkweed aphids. Behind the coneflower thumbnail are a muskrat, a dragonfly, a frog and ducks. Also with the feather post is a red-bellied woodpecker.
One of my favorite posts has no photo: If you plant Milkweed, the Monarchs will come
And just so Michelle has a new photo for the beautiful collages she creates each week, here’s the sparrow I sighted today in my neighbor’s bush.
Lovely tribute to Michelle, Leora! I agree that she does a fabulous job every week, and she shares tons of useful and interesting information.
I also really appreciate the comments she leaves on my own blog. She’s so… human! I mean, I really feel like there’s a real person reading my posts and trying to relate.
She’s a teacher at heart and quite empathetic to many.
Oh my gosh..this is so special and must have taken so much work on your part Leora..Thank you so very much!!! You have some of my favorite posts. The monarch project is a special one to me and I learned so much from it, but I also learn and am inspired by you and other Nature Notes bloggers..Remember when I asked you what Rudbeckia was? LOL…now I have native plants and I always read your posts about food with great interest..something I need to do. Thank you..I have enjoyed getting to “know” you…hugs..Michelle
I am so glad I made you smile, Michelle!
A very nice tribute to Michelle! She does have a lovely blog with great inof and nature notes. I am happy to visit her and everyone that links up to her weekly meme. I wish you and your family a very Happy New Year!
Thanks, Eileen!
What a great tribute to Michelle’s wonderful blog and meme. I love the way you made the collage that have links to the different posts. I also love the little sparrow you photographed. Great shot.
Thanks for the comment on the sparrow photo – I loved my success with that one! I took several blurry sparrow photos first – the camera kept focusing on the background instead of the hoppy character closer to the camera.
PS I meant to wish you and your family a Happy New Year ahead but hit post comment to soon.
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Beautiful tribute. I really love your photo of the sparrow (he looks like he is sitting amidst some holiday lighting wrapped around the bush). I have a bush right outside my window that birds love to sit in and they are not frightened off all that easily. I once got a shot of a cardinal sitting on a snow covered branch.
Maybe I should walk by your bush with my camera some time – I’m always wondering where the birds hang out.
Seriously, you should. They love that bush. It is always full of birds.
lovely tribute to a wonderful person!
Hi there – I’ve only just found Nature Notes – as you say itโs a rather splendid site.
Hope you have a good New Year.
SM
Glad you found Nature Notes, Stewart!
A wonderful tribute to Michelle. I’m new to Nature Notes but I love the meme and Michelle’s posts are so interesting and informative. Nice capture of the sparrow..Happy New Year!
Glad you are a nature lover and a Nature Notes appreciator!
Nature Notes is a wonderful meme and I wish I had more time to take pictures of Nature and to post but I like to participate when I can. Thanks Michelle.
Lovely tribute Leora!
In my ideal world, I would take my family on hikes regularly and photograph as I go along. Glad you appreciate the meme as well, Ilana-Davita.
What a wonderful tribute to Michelle. I love her photography and posts. She brings nature’s beauty to the forefront in her captures.
Shabbat Shalom!
Have a lovely 2012!