2015. wild thoughts

a perfect mushroom

among tiny heart-shaped greens

sunny side up

These are Dryad’s Saddle mushrooms, also called Pheasant Backs. Looking, I can’t help but think of a sunny-side-up egg white, plump and succulent, beautifully mottled with earthy tones of umber. And to think how these and all wild mushrooms play vital roles in helping nature renew the woodlands. Next time I see them in the woods, I must remember to stop, and nod, and say thank you….thank you.🙏🏻

 

2014. oh boy!

book on my lap

coffee and blanket at my feet

oh, boy! 

 

Listen, it’s Spring. Oh boy! It’s 34° and there’s a freeze warning. Oh boy! The birds are talking up a storm. Nowhere to go, nothing to do. Not yet. Later on, it’s off to the dentist. Oh, boy!

2013. tu-a-wee…tu-a-wee…

two eastern bluebirds

perched on top of their house

blowin’ in the wind

 

Two Eastern Bluebirds perched on top of their little wooden house. We saw them the other day in the meadow in the wind in the long tall grasses left over from last winter’s snow and winds. Seven little houses, each occupied now, spread across the meadow. The wind blows and they lean. The wind blows again, wings open, spread wide, and loft up and up and away, and they sing now of spring—tu-a-wee…tu-a-wee…tu-a-wee…