Saturday was Earth Day and I missed celebrating it because of a tiny little virus that caused me to catch a common cold. But I’m finally feeling almost back to normal and wanted to continue the Earth Day celebration. So I decided to think of this week as Earth Week Read more…
How quickly nature turns from summer back to spring back to winter! Is this (as I hope) just A Blip in Spring? Remember this photo from yesterday’s blog post where everything was greening? It looks quite different this morning. But it is beautiful, none the less. And remember my spring Read more…
The warm weather this week has been eating snow and ice like crazy. Our backyard is snow-free this morning! This means an end to my spring melt series of photos for this year. And the ice on the pond is rapidly receding. The warm open-window weather is giving us A Read more…
I spend a lot of time watching the pond and the backyard as the ducks and robins return. This morning there were two pairs of wood ducks and several male mallards swimming back and forth in the narrow channel of ice-free water on the pond. I could be imagining this, Read more…
This morning I decided to create a little bit of spring beauty with my fading alstroemeria flowers. So I found a nice snow drift outside the sliding glass window downstairs and “planted” the flowers there. It makes me smile when I look out the window. If I can inject some Read more…