Thanksgiving Day (in the USA; Portland, Oregon to be exact) was sodden. Yesterday we had four times our average rain (0.86 in vs. 0.20 in) and I’d thought it was to continue all week and weekend. But, Friday was lovely, so here is a fresh shadow. (I’m obsessing on bare trees and crows at the moment. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Nature’
The secret lake
Out of respect for UCM over at Extended Psychosis and her desire to keep “her” special lake special, I will not reveal the name of the beautiful and sacred place Jon and I visited over the weekend. But I will tell you that it has not lost its hold over me, and it, to my [...]
Lightening Bugs
My first time I ever saw a lightening bug was about a month ago. Jon thought they were the glowing eyes of frogs. This is one of the most unexpected glorious things about moving to the east coast. Lightening bugs. Cardinals. Massive lightening storms. Poison Ivy (oh, not that….although I have it in my backyard). [...]
I have a thing for old farm equipment
I’ve been depressed, a bit, lately. From the end of January to last Wednesday, it was go, go, go- with basically no break. School is of course a massive undertaking (four classes last semester including stats), finding a new house in a new state and moving, dealing with a cervical problem, then taking on a [...]
Our backyard zoo
Today, we saw a fox. Jon took a picture, but it was blurry so not fit for publication. Counting the cats, foxes, chipmunks, squirrels, mice, rabbits, and 20 variety of bird we have here, it’s almost like living in a zoo. As excited as I am to move to PA, we’re going to miss the [...]
An Audubon Portland Action Alert
Metro and Counties Prepares to Designate Long-term Urban and Rural Reserves. Decisions will shape regional growth for decades and determine the fate of some of the region’s critical biodiversity lands and surrounding farmland. Should Metro expand the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) south of the Willamette River? Should additional urban development be allowed on the west [...]
Western tanager
My husband came back from the gym telling me about a bird he’d seen that he was sure wasn’t in our yard, at least when we’ve been looking. Not long after he came home, he hollered for me to get to the front window, that the same species was in one of our trees. Sure [...]
Confession Tuesday (deb) NaPoWriNoMo
Well my dear friends, poets and co-confessors. I hereby pull the plug – officially – on my NaPoWriMo daily writing practice. It’s just too hard with managing Read Write Poem (even with all the incredible help from the team there) and taking a creative non-fiction class with Martha Gies. (I started April 3rd and it [...]
3 to 7 Inches
It snowed today- really the first “real” snow we’ve had since we moved to New Jersey. When we first moved here, I had in mind visions of being snowed in from December-March- nasty dirty snow piled high all winter long. And in fact, if we had moved here in the 70′s, that’s very well what [...]
You have two hours
From now until midnight EST (9pm PST), you can watch a total eclipse of the moon! It just went into the “total phase” which will last until 11pm/8pm, and then will be partial as it moves out of phase for the subsequent hour. This is a great opportunity for most of North and South America, [...]
