“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” – John Muir
Continue readingOnce upon a time a girl and a boy hung an owl box on the trunk of a dead ash tree in their backyard. Would it be used? Would it be the owls? Looking out of the window they waited and watched to see what nature would bring them. Five years later they continue waiting and watching to see if this year will bring wonders as in the past.
Catch up on Year 1 , Year 2 , Year 3, Year 4 to see how it all began. Then read on for the next chapter of the Backyard Owl Journals.
Continue readingCatch up on Year 1 , Year 2 , Year 3 to see how it all began.
Fall had arrived and I was creating new gardens under the nest box tree. If the owls were there, they were not peeking out. Bluebirds, Blue Jays and squirrels peeked inside. No sign of owls. My fingers were crossed.
“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.”
from The Wonder Years
Eagles of Inspiration
by Jim Weller
A pair of eagles in a tree
speaks of other truths to me.
I see a bond that none may shake
and only death itself dare break!
Devoted to each other so,
yet year by year devotion grows,
through every trial that they share
in togetherness and mutual care.
The Bald Eagle
Don R. Wilkins
Motley,MN
© 2007
My place in Nature is secure.
I’m viewed now with respect.
A Symbol for the strong and free,
I fly with no regret.
“The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak and stared with his foot on the prey.”
– Lord Alfred Tennyson
I enjoy looking out nature’s window watching the songbirds. As the seasons change so do the birds who visit the yard. When a raptor visits, that is a special day.
Continue reading“Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.”
— Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist
Have you ever looked out of nature’s window when the skies are black and lit by tiny pinpoints of light? Surprises and wonders can be found even in the dark of night.
Continue reading“I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift.” -Dodinsky
Looking out nature’s window has shown me that life, even at its end can be a gift. That is the subject of this read.
Continue readingA flash of harmless lightning, a mist of rainbow dyes, the burnished sunbeams brightening from flower to flower he flies. -John B. Tabb (John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”)
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