
Imagine, you’re a crabapple tree, just hanging out. Kind of a foggy day. Then it happens! The waxwings are coming! And they are here, covering every tree in sight, taking turns to […]
Imagine, you’re a crabapple tree, just hanging out. Kind of a foggy day. Then it happens! The waxwings are coming! And they are here, covering every tree in sight, taking turns to […]
Why Do Geese Have Long Necks? It’s because of alfalfa fields in ancient lake bottoms that drifted into gentle curves in post-glacial winds. It used to be that Canada Geese travelled south […]
Choke cherries, beloved of the sky. And in my kitchen! Lots of choke cherries! What a lovely meditation they are for the fingers. And the eye, too… And the mind. As […]
What’s so special about crows?Poufy Fluff Note: this is the male.
This robin’s first brood were two such big louts that I think they burst their nest. Certainly, they fell to the ground, where she fed them for a week until they were […]
See, here’s how it goes. Yellow: Crab Spider Up to No Good Red… Mushroom Shrooming See how this works? Let’s practice some more. Yellow … Tiger Lily Red… Beetle on Milkweed Red […]
Good news! The ring-necked pheasant up on the hill has two hens. Here he is. The hens are going to fly up in front of me a couple minutes later. Ring-Necked Pheasant […]
Literally! They flew out of the neighbour’s locust tree in a whirr of wings, perched in the flowering crabapple tree across the road, and started stuffing themselves with apples. No sooner than […]
So, I’m strolling along, whistling and happy in the sun, when one of the hawks that are so busy hunting in these snowy days leaps off a power pole and hassles a […]
Went up to the fire, and who did I find? Raven Checking Me Out We talked. The thing about ravens is that we can’t see them. Only the spot where they are […]