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It’s time for an interruption for Gasteruption!

A small stained glass window is resting on a leaf. The opalescent panels shimmer with the slightest breath of wind, reflecting the radiant halo of mother nature. It is a passageway, an opening to a locket. Inside are luminous keepsakes. The song of the Chickadee. An inchworm measuring your arm. A sweep of wind across a meadow. An unrestrained river.

The cicadas in the western U.S. aren’t the periodic cicadas that emerge by the jillions on the east coast. But they do live underground as larvae, leave behind spectral pupal casings, and make buzzing and clicking calls with a unique and fascinating organ—more on that later.

The Common Yellowthroat is a beautiful bird.

River jewelwings are beautiful, sparkly insects, even if the common name isn’t completely accurate. It’s not so much the wings, but mainly the thorax and abdomen of these broad-winged damselflies that is strikingly colorful.