We are fortunate to live in a place and time where we can see bald eagles. Everyday! Spring is the time we usually have one or two landing in the overgrown tree in the dry creek bed beside our house. They come before leaf out, while the branches are still bare, finding their perch for…
One thing I miss about not having my boys home anymore is the conversations we would have after dinner. This is true of my middle son, especially. He is a big picture thinker and a conceptual learner. Our current educational systems, in the U.S., at least where we live in the mid-west, do not cater…
Last week, I was taking a break from my writing my blog. It was time to refresh and relieve myself of the irritations that come with blogging daily for five years. I write to be heard, sometimes I’m not. End of story. A few days before Pi Day or 3/14 (3.14….) I saw a social…
Thank you for stopping by my Silent Sunday post where I feature mostly my own photography on a theme of my choice. Enjoy!
In late February 2017, I decided to join the Slice of Life Writing Challenge for March. This writing challenge, hosted by TwoWritingTeachers.org, involves writing daily for the month of March and responding to at least three other bloggers’ posts. I did it and then some. I kept writing and writing and writing. Five years later,…
This week I’ve been diligently working on an environmental day presentation for the first-grade classrooms at a local elementary school. Each year, I am asked back to provide a lesson for their earth day celebrations. Three of the topics I’ve presented were Forest Stewardship: Treating our Forests as our Friend, Monarch Life Cycles and Habitat,…
Lately, I’ve been giving some thought as to which United States National Parks I’d like to visit next. This past year we traveled to: Arches National Park Grand Canyon National Park Saguaro National Park Petrified Forest National Park and Haleakala National Park. And, that’s not all. In 2018, I visited Joshua Tree National Park and…
Wednesday has become our day to clean. It also happens to be the day I make trips to the consignment store with things I deem more than garage sale worthy – like today’s drop-off. It included a framed professional photograph of the moon over the Eau Claire River. The frame was handmade by my husband…
Today is Silent Sunday. It is a day, each week, I post only my own photographs on a theme of my choosing. All photos are copyrighted by me and there is no permission to reproduce them in any form. Thank you!
I’m not in the mood to write today. Yesterday, I felt good, as though I was getting over the virus. Today, not so much. I slept almost 12 hours last night. Although I did that occasionally in my youth, I have not slept that length of time in a very long while. I must have…