I've been a fan of cacti for years and never cease to be amazed by how many flowers a single small plant can produce. If only they wer...

  You may recall that my first April post was of a bee on a hyacinth. I don't know whether this is the same bee, but it's obviously ...

  Rather than think about filing my tax return, I'd rather look at daffodils. They're such cheerful flowers, and while they come in ...

  One of my favorite early spring flowers are these dwarf iris. There also some yellow ones, but they tend to bloom later. 

  April showers bring May flowers -- or so the saying goes -- but some flowers don't wait for May to bloom. As you can see, a bee enjoye...

  A month of blog posts about Wyoming forts wouldn't be complete without one featuring Fort Laramie, would it? I chose this picture for ...

  Sometimes the most interesting aspects of a fort are the interior exhibits rather than the buildings themselves. I found that to be the ca...