Window Thinking
When we moved into this house the previous owner left us a note on the counter. Welcome home! she said. And also…..there are magpies! The magpies indeed. For two and a half years now, magpies have been the main bird on the block. Periodically there’s a protest in the neighborhood online bulletin board: WHOEVER IS …
I’ve been working puzzlesfrom a boxalso fromthe stuff of my life.
Pussy willows highagainst a deep blue sky meanSpring! has sprung again.
Concept becomes reality and we have chickens in our basement. See also: brotherly love (Ryan’s birthday present from Ethan was a 3d printed Speckled Sussex stuffed with cash)
mud at my feetheavy clouds overhead beautiful light in my view
Sometimeslarge, wild creaturesstop by here as if simply to say,hello.
When all the world feels topsy turvyyet stillthe birds come back thank you. (see also) August 21: over and through
In the long dark and the deep cold this day can be hard to remember.
Last week I read an article that quoted our state doctor: The sooner we can learn to kind of swim in this new water rather than just kind of holding on to the edge of the past, the stronger and more resilient we’ll be. – Anne Zink When I hear talk of normal/new normal these …
Early birdswork in the puddleswhile they waitfor better real estate.
They are just boots,but these boots shout: That winter is behind us at last!
Mushy layers andmelty edges,the ice gives way to solid ground.
I know that somewhere in all of this there is a pathand it goes through.
Super Pink (pandemic) MoonVenus and the PleiadesLightFor the Night
Some say, At least they can’t cancel spring! I say – gotta take the long view.
so much bad news yet still we plant we watch we wait we hope right here now
Moose wander our neighborhood more often during these long, warming days. Every time we let the dog out to the backyard we have to first do a visual moose check because sometimes ….. It’s always a quirky surprise to look up and see these seeming gentle giants meander along sidewalks and across backyards, munching our shrubs and …
The HunkerDown AnchorTown Patrol makes unannounced rounds and we are glad to report tonight – we were home and our hands were clean! Our helpers need us to PLEASE STAY HOME.
I pull a puzzle from my shelf and piece together pandemic prayer.
I logged onto Facebook several times today, intending to post about the COVID-19 POUNDS that I fear are a very real risk associated with the current Work From Home HUNKER DOWN policy in Anchorage. I mean!!! We’ve got Ethan managing our lunch room!!! #realsideffects I never actually wrote the post though because there was something …
At the end of this long grey day the sun sets our horizon on fire.
Big fat snowflakes falllike rain on a sloppy dayand we call it Spring! This picture is from a couple nights ago, but only because it’s better than the one I snapped tonight as we crossed the line from winter to spring.
Yesterday I sat awhile in the sunshine. It was an icebox out there in the backyard, and yet the sun felt warm on my face. I put a pause on my day and went out to sit with it. Today the clouds came back and by afternoon the snow was falling again. Tonight it falls …
We’ve come through another dark winter here in Anchorage and light is returning at a rate of nearly 6 additional minutes/day. This picture is from my walk at 8:30p, just after sunset last night. Deep winter dark is behind us now and the 24/7 light is coming at us fast. I’ve lived the dramatic dark/light/dark/light …