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…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
The first day of spring arrived and the ground was still covered with snow. But somehow, it feels different now, as if spring really is arriving. When I look out my bedroom window in the morning I can see that The Melt has begun. The surface of the snow looks Read more…