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Happy for Spring

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, but they seem Happy for Spring and happy to be back in the pond. I know I am happy for spring. Each day I’m soaking up the sunshine and mild breezes and watching winter’s snow recede. I can’t wait until it’s warm enough to plant my summer container gardens. This Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

19 Days of Spring

It’s been a beautiful week! I think all of us in this part of Minnesota are grateful for warmer days and sunshine. The melt is seriously on! Finally! I’ve been making a photo each day of the scene outside my bedroom window since the first day of spring. Today it’s been nineteen days. I did not imagine when I started that we would still have snow on the ground. But here we are. Still, I am celebrating the first 19 Days of Spring. Yesterday I saw about half a dozen birds underneath the pine tree next to the bedroom window. Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Circle of Life

This morning when I looked in the mirror and saw the skin on my neck I realized that at that moment it looked like “old lady skin.” I was astonished to see this proof of my aging before my eyes. Seeing the Circle of Life before my eyes in the aging of my own body took me by surprise. We don’t talk a lot about aging as if by not acknowledging it we can somehow make it stop. But things keep happening to remind me that though my spirit may be eternal, this body I’m living in, is not. Contentment Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Abiding Presence

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 humor into these snow-covered spring days perhaps I can live with a sense of Abiding Presence that nature is doing exactly what she needs to be doing in this moment. When I let go of my human-centered viewpoint I begin to understand that we humans are probably not the highest Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

April Fools Day

Before the blizzard began last night I was so done with snow for the year. When Jon suggested that I might want to get up early to photograph the snow covered world I told him, “No way, I’ve had enough snow for the year!” But here we are with a big April Fools Day snow covered world. All Heaven and Earth Flowered white obliterate… Snow…unceasing snow ― Hashin, Japanese Haiku I told Jon that I had no desire to make photographs of more snow. And I that I was fed up with winter. But then I looked out the windows Read more…

By Marilyn, ago