Lessons from the forest

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…