Lessons from the forest

The cougar came by on Sunday.    I have never seen the cougar in person, but the Ring camera picked it up … as you can see in the background photo.  My immediate thought was:  Satan is a prowling…

I just now pulled on my garden coat.    A faint aroma of smoke was perceptible.    Smoke, from the bonfire hubby and I had had a week ago.  Sure, I had been engulfed in clouds of billowing bonfire smoke…

I mentioned in yesterday’s blog post about moving lots of ferns.    Now is the time to move ferns!  March.   And the first part of April.  As the weather warms up throughout April, the brand-new baby fern fronds will…

When hubby and I purchased our forested piece of property, the front half of the property was divided into two distinct sections:  a side road running through the woods … and a paddock (where the former owners had…

I have been doing a lot of work out in the forest.  In today’s background photo you can see two huge piles of branches, sticker bushes, and brush debris heaped up and waiting to be burned.  Hubby and…

Psalm 1 says that the blessed person delights in God’s Word … and on God’s Word they meditate day and night.  (Psalm 1:2)   What does this look like?  What does it look like to “meditate on God’s Word”? …

Psalm 1 describes the blessed person as being like a growing tree.  As trees grow … they change.  The 100 baby cedar trees hubby and I planted three years ago have grown.  They do not look the same…

I was headed over to the woodshed to load up the wheelbarrow with a load of firewood  (to take around to the back of the house), when I noticed a bear paw-print in the flowerbed.  You can see…

I was just now outside, sweeping off the back deck.  Maple seeds get stuck down in the cracks of the deck … lots of maple seeds!    And right now it seems there’s a lot of hemlock seeds all…