Rain gauge – Rain makes the green come out in flowers, trees and plants. With rain, it’s all green; without rain, it’s all brown. Rain makes the rivers flow and keeps all the animals alive too, by keeping the plants that they eat alive. I love the
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Dung beetle – These beetles are rolling up horse manure. Their nickname is the rollers, because they roll up dung as a food source to put in a brooding chamber they dig in the ground. The male and female mate and then she lays her eggs inside
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White-winged Dove – This is a momma dove with the second chick that she raised this year. They are roosting in a Ponderosa pine tree that is in my backyard. Doves are migratory birds and come north to nest and have babies in the summer. The momma
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Indian Blankets – Indian Blankets are wildflowers that bloom in the summer and into the fall. They grow everywhere around where I live. Indian Blankets are native wildflowers which means they grow on their own in Colorado and Texas and all over the plains. I love the
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Swiss Family Robinson – Sometimes I wish that my family and I were on an abandoned island foraging for food and things from the ship for a living, but I think it would be hard to live that way. I would love to play with monkeys and
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