Recent Encounters Of The Bird Kind

April 10, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A robin building her nest, an osprey with his dinner, a goldfinch and a red-bellied woodpecker guarding the nest. For Bird Weekly challenge: birds seen in the past two weeks.

From Barefeet to Wildflowers

April 9, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Things that start with B or W

Close Enough

April 8, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Midweek Madness: Macro or closeup

That Face!

April 6, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week Challenge: That Face!)

VJ’s Weekly Challenge: nesting

April 5, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

“Grandma, I had a great day at school! We learned about birds!” Four-year-old August is as passionate about birds as I am. “What did you learn?” I ask. “Birds will use just about anything to build their nests, even shoe laces.” Her eyes are wide and her expression radiates amusement. Every morning this week, a […]

Words To Guide Me

April 4, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

Mother I feel you under my feet… Mother I hear your heartbeat… Mother I see you when the eagle flies… Mother please take me higher… Lens-artists Photo Challenge this week is a ‘you pick’. Reena’s Xploration challenge is a sentence to be used at the end of the post. I am indeed challenged by Reena’s […]

‘Night Moon

April 3, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Weekend Sky challenge

Snippets From a Life

April 1, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Looks as if Ric is facing another surgery. We’ll know by the 13th, if not sooner. Meanwhile, my own illness is flaring, and the new treatment is causing severe nausea and other complications. Thank goodness for my camera, which takes me out of myself, if only for a moment. Here are a few snippets of […]

Our Street, Different Seasons

March 31, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week challenge: The street where you live.)

VJ’s Weekly Challenge: snippets

March 29, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Popping the bubbles on a newly tarred road… occasionally losing a flip flop and hopping one-footed to retrieve it. Climbing as high as I can up the Willow tree, where hidden from the world, I eavesdrop on passersby. Contemplating how beauty has never fit with the equation of self. All the glamorous dresses my father […]