Lessons from the forest

I had just settled into the rhythm of walking my loops for exercise this morning when a couple of large aggressive flies began circling my head and following me every step I took!     They followed me around the…

Last night as I was busy fixing dinner a couple of does wandered by checking on the apple trees to see if the apples are ripe.     Sadly, the apples are not ripe yet.    In fact, the apples are…

I love my country!     I love the red, white, and blue!     But what do we do when we feel like freedom is being taken away from us??     The last two blog posts considered the “Red” and the “White”…

I love my country!     I love the red, white, and blue!     But what do we do when we feel like freedom is being taken away from us??     The last blog post considered the “Red” in the Red, White,…

My sister was in Washington, DC recently and she sent me this photo of the Washington Monument all lit up for the 250th Celebration festivities.   Is that not epic!     I love my country!    I love the red, white,…

The neighbor’s cat just now moseyed by while I was doing the dishes.   It moseyed over to the garden shed and was very interested in some small, tasty creature which was obviously somewhere in there, underneath the door.  …

I was in the kitchen last night fixing dinner when I noticed out my kitchen window a doe had found a quiet resting spot underneath the apple trees over next to the forest.   She was so at peace…

There I was all smug this morning as I stood on the front porch admiring the fact that my Bunchberry Dogwoods are starting to recover.   The deer have been having coyote consternations this Spring,  which has kept them…

I was sitting out on my front porch yesterday as I wrote yesterday’s blog post about “The Sower … the Seed … and the harvest.”     As I was sitting there, the little hummingbirds kept coming and going, back…