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.

Wordless Wednesday

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

Following the Geese Home

January 2, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Weekend Sky with Hammad Rais

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’.)

Wordless Wednesday

December 30, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Cooper’s Hawk

December 28, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

A flurry of scurrying birds draws my attention outside. The feeders are empty meaning someone or something has invaded our sanctuary. A bird of prey. I catch it landing on a neighbour’s tree but it’s too far away to identify. I return to my task, half watching for the return of the many birds that […]

December Sky Wars

December 26, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

December skies are moody – one moment brooding, the next a pop of sun, and then snow or rain. These photos were taken just before snow.For Hammad Rais’s challenge Weekend Sky.

Don’t Fence Me In

December 24, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: fences and gates

Sun Certainty

Clouds bundleshift and foldcotton strata Trees huddleconfidence incommunity Emotions stackone on anotherco-mingling hues Beneath layersan eternal glowsun certainty. (First published April 2021. Image my own)

Peachy Keen

Not Everything Is Defined by Age

As a child, I knew no limits, setting out on adventures with never a fear for how I’d find my way back home. Now, nestled in my home, I limit myself to certainties, fearful of risks. Some days, I wonder about that child, and how it would feel to wander freely, and it makes me […]