We All Start With ‘C’

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

A cardinal, Common merganser, covy of Common redpoll, a chickadee. For Bird Weekly’s challenge: birds that start with ‘c’.

A Closer Look

January 7, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

V.J.’s Weekly Challenge: Essential A’s….

January 4, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

Appreciation and acknowledgment. Two things I liked to affirm at the end of my workshops or classes. To each individual participant I’d offer gratitude for one thing I’d gained from them and acknowledgment of their journey by offering a wish. As we welcome in a New Year, I thought this exercise would adapt well here. […]

Wing Envy

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

Bird Weekly challenge is to post photos of birds with long wingspans. Our larger birds have flown south for the winter, but the birds of prey remain, and of course, the Canada geese.

There’s a ‘u’ in there…

December 31, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Church Flurry (birds) in a flurry (snow) (For Cee’s Midweek Madness challenge: Words that contain the letter ‘u’.)

Christmas

December 22, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Unique ornaments, each representing Christmas’ gone by, decorate our tree. This year, it will be just the two of us enjoying this family tradition. (For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week challenge: Christmas.)

The Mice Are Stirring

December 21, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A favourite Christmas ornament for Lens-Artist Photo Challenge: Here comes the holiday season.

The Heart That Keeps Beating

December 20, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

My mother with her Christmas nails. (Read story here) After he painted them, my son FaceTimed us so we could all see. Mom was radiant with joy to see all of us on the iPad my son-in-law had provided. On his next visit, Jay took her down to see the Christmas lights in the lobby […]

In Water and Snow

December 18, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Bird Weekly challenge: birds in or near the water or snow.

VJ’s Weekly Challenge #125: heartwarming

December 14, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

Mom, having survived three heart attacks, is now back in her nursing home under quarantine. Not that we can see her anyway; everything is back in lockdown. But there is a loophole. Two essential workers, meeting the Provincial criteria and having been cleared by a COVID test, can visit. My sister applied as she lives […]

Dear Child

I know a little girl,whose hair in ringletsfalls, unkempt from lackof brushing; who standswhen she should be sitting;who laughs with defiance whenchallenged, her dark eyes gleamingwith mischief; who holds her chin uphigh and stamps her feet, arms foldedin protest when she does not get her way. I see that little girl,have watched her play,with a […]

Re-de-fine-d

Ask me how I’m doingand I’ll say “fine”, notbecause I’m actually fine,but because “fine” is the onlysocially acceptable response. If I said that I have been lyinghere, for three hours now,willing my body to move,that would elicit unsolicitedadvice and tarnish my “fine”. I’d berate myself for breakingmy promise not to moan,knowing that complainingprovokes a compulsive […]