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 Capturing a rare moment in the rewarding  discovery of beauty in the real world, is a gift to be  cherished and shared. Sharing happy and enlightening pictures filled with life and love on the walls of children's rooms especially, opens special opportunities for rewarding parenting. One is the ever-fleeting chance to communicate with your kids.  Trust me that researching your selection of wildlife will open new doors for parents, but seeing the awe-struck look on your little one's face is immeasurable when you share those stories. It opens a mound of opportunities to bond, as you share stories and smiles back and forth. This little American Bluebird fledgling is hiding in a familiar River Birch tree near his nest, not quite ready to fly into the big unknown with his 2 other nest mates. Not only does his adorableness inspire us into peaceful slumber, but adding his  story is reassuring and uplifting to a child facing a seemingly insurmountable concern. After a b...

Great Egret Nest with Her Young Babies in Charleston, SC The more research that's done, the more scientists are proving we can inherit much more than hair and eye colors from our ancestors, including previously unexplainable behaviors.  It's been proven for example, certain DNA hidden in us can be activated by a mere smell that formerly caused a distant ancestor's same response or reaction.  Scientists exposed parent-to-be mice to a particular smell, then shocked them so the mice associated that smell to a traumatic event, the shock.  The mice were impregnated by non-shocked mice so the scientist could take the hypothesis even farther.  When their mice were born, she measured the amount of  the particular cells in their noses that detect the particular smell that traumatized their parent. Simply put, DNA instructs our cells. She  observed the nose cells that detect that same smell had dramatically increased in the offspring.   One scientist hypoth...