Something borrowed, something new
Remember the Robin’s nest I told you about in the tree in our front yard? A couple weeks ago, we had another bird try to make a nest on the balcony…
Carrying beauty with you…
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Just some of the…
A new thing…
Happy first week of spring, everyone! I hope this season is filled with new things for you! “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you…
And then there were… ducks!
The other morning, Mike was telling the kids how he’d been seeing ducks fly over our house lately. Just a few hours later, that same day, we got a couple of…
Friendship…
These birds land in one of the redwood trees in our backyard almost every day around 5:00 pm. Friendship is a sheltering tree. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge For more “Wordful” / Wordless…
Closer…
One of the butterflies we released, taking a rest on our pear tree before flying away. “I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.” ~Author…
Taking flight…
Remember the butterflies I told you about? The weather was warm enough earlier this week to let them go. My daughter held one of them up, expecting it to fly away quickly. But it didn’t….
Winter is…
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire. It is the time for…