Category Archives: nature

HD Video Interview with Vivian Reiss in her amazing artist’s garden in Toronto. 16 Foot tall corn!

Watch this HD video interview I did with artist Vivian Reiss in her urban farming garden in Toronto.  It featues 16 foot tall broom corn, multi-colored amaranth, and gardening secrets. Enjoy!

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Edward’s Gardens, Toronto

beautiful overview of the park.  They have gardening and horticulture classes at this park. Giant banana It takes a lot of flowers to do this type of planting.

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Snub Nosed Monkey

  This is a baby golden snub nosed monkey from China.  National Geographic had a photo essay on them this month. They live in very cold conditions.  One type of snub nosed monkey sneezes when it gets rain on its … Continue reading

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Gold and Silver Moth

This beautiful moth was found on the kitchen counter where I am in the US Virgin Islands. It has both gold and silver on its wings. A precious metal moth! BK9W6TNBSG7E

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Beautiful view

This is a beautiful view from the top of a mountain in USVI It looks like fairy tale land!

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Wild Orchid

On the way down to the beach in St. John, US Virgin Islands, I found these beautiful wild orchids here is another beautiful orchid from USVI

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Underwater photos

I went snorkling in the US Virgin Isles with an underwater camera, here are some beautiful photos I took of the sky taken from underwater.  enjoy!

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Hermit Crab

I am in the US Virgin Islands having a great time.  Today on the beach I found a hermit crab living in an abandoned snail shell.  It was very cute, and shy at first, but pretty soon it was out … Continue reading

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Vivian Reiss painting huge new garden painting

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Phalaenopsis orchids

I love orchids, they are such beautiful exotic flowers.  The most popular orchids for at-home growing is the phalaenopsis orchid.  They are very hardy, and the blossoms last a long time.  They require watering once a week with lukewarm water.

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Beautiful Garden by Vivian Reiss

Garden by Vivian Reiss.  Website: www.vreiss.com  Blog: www.vivianreiss.com        

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Golden Lion Tamarin Monkeys

These beautiful monkeys have a golden mane of fur.  They are tiny little monkeys that live in the jungle in Brazil, where they eat insects and vegetation and anything else they can scrounge like bird eggs.  There are some at the … Continue reading

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Beautiful Vietnamese Monkeys

This monkey is called the  douc langur, and it is beautiful. They are very endangered.  I’ve never been to Vietnam, but I’ve seen them in a zoo and they are very graceful, peaceful animals.  baby one: Here is another amazing vietnamese … Continue reading

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Bowerbirds – the landscape architects of the natural world

National Geographic Magazine had an amazing article about bowerbirds, a small bird that lives in Australia and New Guinea. What makes the bowerbird unique is that the males create amazing love nests decked out with found objects to woo the … Continue reading

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Alpacas!

Cute alpcas captured by my cell phone camera. One of the features that humans find inherently cute is large eye size in realtion to head size.  Alpacas have very big eyes, which is part of the reason they are so … Continue reading

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Sunrise

Beautiful sunrise over Stony Lake where I was this past few days.  July 1 2010 Canada Day

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