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…
The day before yesterday I saw the first signs of water at the edge of the mostly frozen pond. Then yesterday late afternoon I saw Ducks in the Pond for the first time this spring! There wasn’t much space for them to swim in but they were dabbling and finding 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…
It was cold outside yesterday (and again today)! So I decided to have A Learning/Playing Day in my home studio yesterday and today. Yesterday morning I made and edited photos of the flowers and cherry blossom twigs that I bought the day before at the greenhouse. As is often Read more…