birds

Invisible on a foggy morning.

May 7, 2009

Let’s clear the air right up front – I love rain and I love fog. There, I said it. This morning’s fog left only feet of visible space around our home. As it lifted it settled a hundred feet back from the house but was just as dense. It was one of those morning I walked [...]

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True confessions.

April 16, 2009

We are going on vacation. You might say, so what? Well, this is my husband’s and my first real vacation, the kind where you stay in one spot and can walk or ride your bike to wherever you want to go. We are going to an island off the shore of South Carolina so the [...]

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The week of the beast

April 10, 2009

  The Beast by Theodore Roethke I came to a great door, Its lintel overhung With burr, bramble, and thorn; And when it swung, I saw A meadow, lush and green.  And there a great beast played, A sportive, aimless one, A shred of bone its horn, And colloped round with fern. It looked at [...]

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Citrus, floral, pepper or chocolate?

April 7, 2009

The sleet is tap, tap, tapping at the windows. In northeast Ohio a spring snowstorm carries lots of moisture – all from an unfrozen Lake Erie. Rain, sleet, snow … and what’s with the nonstop blasting horizontal wind? And the earthworms all over the driveway – where did they go or are they curled up [...]

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Red-winged blackbirds

March 6, 2009

Yesterday morning the temperature barely broke 10 degrees. This morning, 50 degrees. Our home overlooks open fields and several ponds – oh yes, and big sky. Yesterday morning a pair of coyotes slowly walked over the ice on the pond and emerged on the other side. Each shook just like a wet dog – the [...]

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