Mellowing with age
Hubby and I were recently away at a small seaside town, and while we were moseying through a little café/shop at the marina we noticed on the community bulletin board a flyer for the local high school Spring…
Does it even matter?
Hubby had some work presentations and other things he needed to do for work after dinner last night. So while hubby was doing his work things, I occupied at the dining room table scrolling through funny otter memes…
Just because I can, that doesn’t mean I should.
The bracken ferns are coming up everywhere! All throughout the forest … all around my garden … and all throughout my front flowerbed! Here is a view of bracken coming up at the far edge of my backyard,…
A big impact from a hidden place
Hubby and I keep our recycle bin out at the end of our long driveway, near the road. Yesterday I was walking out to the recycle bin with a load of recyclables, when a small spot of white…
Let your light shine
As I’ve been standing at my kitchen sink fixing breakfast in the mornings, or doing the dishes in the afternoons, there is a bright spot of color off in the forest that keeps catching my eye. Drawn by…
Lots of blooms … but hardly any fruit
The apple trees are in full bloom! As I stand at my kitchen sink doing the dishes and look out my kitchen window, the trees are beautiful puff-clouds of white! They’re so pretty! With that many blooms, it…
Baited …
Would you believe we have another mouse in the house?? In all these years we’ve lived in our home in the forest we’ve never had any problems with mice in the house … until just recently. This is…
Nothing left but scattered feathers
Hubby and I were calmly sitting at the table having breakfast on Saturday morning when suddenly a huge bald eagle swooped across the backyard and flew up into the branches of the Big Leaf Maple in the backyard. …
There goes the hummingbird feeder …
Hubby and I were just about to crawl in bed last night, but we kept hearing a strange sound outside. It wasn’t the snow falling off the roof. It sounded more like an animal somehow messing with the…
Love hopes.
Several years ago hubby and I got a Grand Fir sapling for our forest. It seemed to us to be a “specialty tree” since all the other trees growing in our forest were Cedars, Western Hemlocks (which were…