Meet Today’s Neighbors

​

See who has arrived in the garden today.

​

The garden is never empty.

​

Someone may be drinking from a blossom, resting beneath a leaf, watching from the fence, or passing through on a journey we cannot see. Some neighbors remain for a season. Some return year after year. Others appear only once - and leave behind a moment we remember long after they have gone.

​

Meet Today’s Neighbors is a changing window into the lives unfolding in the garden right now.

 

Here you may find a familiar mourning dove at the window, a monarch sharing the beebalm, a baby anole testing the mint, or a spider who has chosen one particular rose.

​

We do not begin by asking only, What species is this?

We begin with different questions.

​

Who came today?

What were they doing?

Were they cautious or curious?

Did they arrive alone?

Have we met them before?

​

Because a garden is not populated only by specimens. It is populated by someones.

​

In the Garden Today

The neighbors shown here may change with the light, the weather, the season, or a single unexpected arrival. Each portrait offers a first glimpse, with paths leading to related wildlife profiles, field notes, photographs, stories, mysteries, and earlier visits.

​

A neighbor does not need to be rare to be worth meeting. The ordinary becomes extraordinary when we pay attention long enough to recognize a life unfolding.

​

Someone You May Remember

Some garden guests become familiar over time.​

Stubbers returned to the office window on damaged feet and stood on his tippy toes.

Miss MagentaRoseCrab appeared among the roses and vanished before her story felt finished.

Monty shared the garden’s abundance with the bees.

Curious Miss Lizzy watched from among the leaves.

 

Each became recognizable not because we possessed them, but because we noticed them. Their differences may help us recognize them. Their character is what makes them unforgettable.​​​​