a neighborhood in our front pasture

We had no mosquitoes at the cabin because the boards of dragonflies swooped in like a cloud and gobbled them up.

At our new place, I think this community bird house in the front pasture must be the reason we don’t have much of a mosquito problem. I have not identified any purple martins yet, but I also haven’t been plagued with itchy skeeter bites . . . so they must be active!

There are several of these houses up and down the country lane. Ours is near a gigantic old oak tree dripping with Spanish moss.

I thought it sort of fit the quote from Fred Rogers, but after adding watercolor, the words are hard to read clearly.