Simply Extra I was making lunch when my eyes caught a flash of red, green and purple.  A male cardinal was sitting atop a small hedge of ...

Simply Living Last April, when the lone offspring of the sandhill cranes that nested on our lake was eight days old, the entire family lef...

Simply Living While making breakfast recently, I turned on the radio. The story: One year after the Newtown killings, still no answer as t...

Simply Living Yesterday, I watched three different kinds of bees fly from one red blossom to another on the small patch of Florida tassel...

Simply Living Turning onto the paved road from my driveway, I wasn't surprised to see a dead armadillo. In Florida, armadillos are one...

A Simply Extra I smelled it before I saw it...an emerging stinkhorn mushroom on the path around the lake. Look close and you'll s...

Simply Living I don't usually think of squirrels as particularly noteworthy animals.  These ubiquitous rodents live in our trees,...