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Poetry Friday: Moss
I’ve been appreciating moss on our walks in the woods. These images show such a variety of textures and shades. They remind me that sometimes beautiful things grow in quiet, dormant seasons. Bruce…
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Winter Walking: Tracks and Birds
Last week, driving home from a walk at a winter-frosted marsh, we saw this: See it? Right smack dab in the middle, screened by branches? It’s an eagle! We stopped the car, got…
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Inspiration
I learned about this gentleman on NPR. The girls and I have been enjoying his website this morning. Wonderful stuff. About Joel Sartore from Joel Sartore on Vimeo.
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Raptor Tree
My 5th grader made a “Raptor Tree” using a twig from the back yard, the bird book, and her stores of Model Magic. The detail is pretty amazing: Here’s a picture to provide…
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Weekend sights
The girls and I took a walk in the snow the other day. Now I have shots of this path, which my youngest calls the tree tunnel, in three of the four seasons.…
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Tree tales, muted colors, birds, and musings
“New Year’s” never has been that meaningful to me, coming as it does in the middle of the year’s school activity. It would seem more intuitively meaningful if it happened in the spring.…
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Christmas Eve hawking and walking
We went for a walk on Christmas Eve morning. On the way to the trail, we saw this guy hunting for his breakfast. He posed for us in a variety of postures. He…
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Teachable moments involving shrews
You have to admit, it’s an attention-getting title — for its weirdness if nothing else! For the record, I don’t anticipate this as the start of a new blog category on shrews. Nevertheless,…
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Hawk Stalking
On the way to church this morning, I told my husband, “Someday, I’m going to get a picture of a hawk with blue sky in the background. All my hawk pictures have been…
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Seed speculations
It seems like an odd time of year to be thinking about seeds. It began over the weekend, when my husband got to thinking about God’s provision of seed-bearing plants very early in…
