My Blog primarily consists of close-up nature photos (that I've taken locally) combined with original holistic-truth oriented prose and/or poetry involving mindfulness/awareness. I love nature and I love understanding the whole (not merely the parts and the details). I'm a retired teacher of the multiply handicapped.
I have a number of interesting hobbies, such as fossil collecting, sport-kite flying, 3D and 2D close-up photography, holography, and pets. Most of all, I am into holistic self-awareness, spontaneous insight, unconventional observation/direct perception, mindfulness, meditation, world peace, non-fragmentation, population control, vegetarianism, and green energy.
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Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog 
My pear tree is experiencing a similar fate, but with small, black, slimy worms. I don’t want to use insecticide and have not yet, but finding a natural repellent that works is difficult…Alas, the nature of life: Eat. Be Eaten.
A lot of times herbs, soap, or oil mixed with water (in a spray bottle) will drive them off. This sunflower was ravaged by grasshoppers before the ladybugs were photographed.
The picture of Lady Bugs should be on a calendar, awesome!!!!