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…
Love is not self-seeking.
The red-tailed hawk is self-seeking. Whenever Squirrelina senses the red-tailed hawk is nearby about to fly overhead, she scrambles for all she’s worth to get to out of sight and to safety! The bobcat is self-seeking. All the…
Love rejoices with the truth.
This past weekend hubby and I worked out in the forest digging up invasive Himalayan blackberries. Winter is the best time to do such a thing because the forest has gone to sleep. All the groundcover plants have…
Love is not proud.
I was standing at the kitchen sink doing the dishes when suddenly I noticed an enormous red-tailed hawk perched, silent and still, on a branch of the Big-leaf Maple just out the kitchen window. Whoa! That’s the coolest…
An anxious mind!
Hubby and I carried our lawn chairs out to the yard next to the apple trees. I took my flip flops off so I could put my bare feet in the soft mossy grass. Thankfully I accidentally missed…