Yesterday the first wood ducks of the year arrived in the pond. This morning there are two pairs of wood ducks and one pair of mallards gliding gracefully through the water. Most of the ice is out of the pond and yesterday 4 of the neighborhood’s teens were out canoeing Read more…
This morning in our back yard! Oh my stars! A white tail deer and wood ducks! Morning Gifts of nature! Morning Poem, Mary Oliver Every morning the world is created. Under the orange sticks of the sun the heaped ashes of the night turn into leaves again and Read more…
This time of year I never tire of gazing out our living room window at all of the pond life. Lately there have been lots of wood ducks, mallards, painted turtles, and Canada geese hanging around. There is a haze of green in the trees across the pond. Soon the Read more…
I am greeting the arrival of spring in Minnesota with great joy. Bathing in Beauty From a distance the landscape looks like a mist of spring green. The weeping willow trees are draped in a veil of yellow-green and tiny plants and flowers are beginning to bloom. It makes me Read more…
Quote of the day: “Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning When I got up this morning and looked out the dining room window at the Read more…