Deborah S. Tukua

Spiders, spiders everywhere you look, they’re building webs, making bold appearances. Sometimes in the most unusual and unwanted places. It’s like they’re begging me to feature them. So, I’ll share my recent sightings.

Opening the back door of my car this week, I discovered a spider web inside, extending from one side to the other, and a small spider, busy at work. Orb weavers have built a web just above our hummingbird feeder at the edge of the covered deck. Yesterday, I was about to place...

Attract wild birds to your yard with a gorgeous, yet easy to make, wildcrafted bird feeder wreath. This simple wreath is not only beautiful, but beneficial as it’s filled with all things edible for wild birds. It’ll attract and feed wild birds through the sparse months of late fall and winter.

Wild birds consume lots of berries and seeds. Late summer through early fall is the perfect time to collect stems from trees, bushes and plants yielding berries and seed pods that birds eat.

The natural...

Landscaping with rocks? It’s a no-brainer, living in Tennessee. When the shallow well was dug on our property, a huge boulder was struck sixteen feet underground. The heavy-duty excavator tilted forward, raising the back of the machine slightly off the ground, (eek!) as it strained, pulling and lifting the heavy rock out of the deep hole. No surprise discovering that the massive boulder measured seven feet wide.

Landscape Feature Rock

With the heavy-duty machinery on site, we asked the...

Beautiful! Inspiring! In the middle-grade book I'm writing, an important scene takes place at the Winnewissa Falls at Pipestone National Monument. Can't wait to share, once its...