Once upon a time — not all that long ago — most of North American was “open” space. There was room for predators. Room for herds of antelope, bison, deer and elk. Wild goats lived in the mountains with mountain… Read More ›
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BIRDS OF ODD AND ORANGE FEATHERS WITH BABIES
This is the way he looked last week. I’m still wondering if we are breeding a new kind of Cardinal here in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. Yesterday, I met the lady of the family and today, the babies showed up. Yes, orange… Read More ›
ALWAYS AUTUMN
Fandango’s Dog Days of August #28: LOVING AUTUMN New England has always been the best place in the world to see the colors of Autumn. We have always had “bad” autumnal years. There can be too much rain or an… Read More ›
LIVING IN THE WILDERNESS? – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP SATURDAY: WILDERNESS The area in which we live is definitely rural, but I never considered it wilderness until suddenly, after 20 years of receiving packages from every known delivery service, we can’t be found. We have disappeared. We get… Read More ›
LINES IN THE WOODSHED – Garry Armstrong
The Lines in the Old Woodshed It’s coming down before the winter comes. Its roof is about ready to cave in. One big snow, and it will bring itself down. That would make a terrible mess, so it makes more… Read More ›
FOREST LIFE WHEN SPRING HAS COME – Marilyn Armstrong
OH FOREST PRIMEVAL I laughed when Ellin wrote that the weather is perfect for outside. “Not too hot, not too cold, and the bugs aren’t in full attack mode.” Or something to that effect. People who don’t live here don’t… Read More ›
APPROACHING EARTH DAY WITH THE SWANS – Marilyn Armstrong
Usually, when I publish pictures of swans, I clean up the water, but these are the originals … the way the photographs looked before clearing out the rubbish. As we again approach America’s “Earth Day,” I find myself ready to… Read More ›
THE CHANGING SEASONS – MARCH 2018 – GARRY & MARILYN ARMSTRONG
February ended and we all thought — especially me! — that spring was just around the corner. We’d had a lot of snow in January — with warm weeks in between. We had considerable snow in February — with even… Read More ›
THE CHANGING SEASONS – FEBRUARY 2018
As February is ending, it is time for another “Changing Seasons” post. I haven’t gotten the alert, but I’ve been doing this for two years, so I don’t have a problem doing it again. It has been a truly dull… Read More ›
WHY OH WHY?
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Letter Y – Needs to start or end with the letter Y or in the caption “Why” needs to be present Why oh why do I have so much trouble with “Y”? Is it because I… Read More ›
UNDULATING IN THE UNDERBRUSH IN THE DANGEROUS WOODS
Doesn’t that sound like some bizarre parallel of life? There you are in your L.L. Bean boots, sprayed head-to-foot with anti-bug glop. You don’t know what’s worse — the big heavy boots with your jeans tucked into the tops, or… Read More ›
WHY DID I HAVE THAT PARTICULAR DREAM LAST NIGHT?
Dreams are as personal as anything gets. Normal dreams are some kind of weird, twisted personal experience, set in a hazy backdrop of ordinary things turned upside down or sideways. This particular dream was unique because it wasn’t personal. It was… Read More ›
