WaterNotes

In Florida, landscaping is a huge buisness.  Half of the appeal of residing in this place is the tropical greenery setting the backdrop to your life.  Its wonderful, I’ll admit.

Native passionflower, beautiful and great caterpillar habitat
Unfortunately, most of these carefully crafted landscapes don’t use plants native to Florida.  That presents us with a mess of trouble [...]

I dont know what prompted it, but I started looking at all the trash that I generate in a single day.  Like the qtips you’re not supposed to poke into your ears.  Mine have the rolled paper sticks.. but I know a lot of them are made of plastic these days. 
I wonder how long it [...]

A bag of Squirrel Away warns, “if you cannot read this label, have someone read it to you.” The statement contains a hilarious paradox equivalent to the old Chicken-and-the-Egg quandary. Unless a person can already read they cannot heed the written warning. Unlike the Chicken-and-the-Egg riddle, we know literacy must come first. Reading enables us to [...]

Anyone else out there watch Discovery’s Deep Blue on this past weekend?  Were you as disappointed as I was?  Seems to be a major rehash of footage seen in the previously-awesome Blue Planet series.. down to the music.  And those segments that were new, had paltry little new information to share.  They hardly even identified [...]

A child camping overnight on a spoil island off the coast of Florida single-mindedly follows a long skinny slide in the sand. He ignores the mosquitoes and happily jumps over the roots of red mangrove. He loves reptiles and he knows the trail will lead him to a snake.
The cool sand in the track indicates [...]