...you don't always get the guests you expected! After breakfast, I cleaned the kitchen and went outside to prepare the backyard buffet with a delicious feast for the birds. Apparently the feast was appealing enough to attract the attention of a little herd of deer that wandered up from nearby Chagrin River Park. After the deer were finished …
Wordless Wednesday
Cold day...Hot soup!
Bright-eyed birds
A tilt of the head and a flash of sunlight can create a glimmer of brightness in these dark-eyed little birds. Photographers call it a catchlight! Look for it in the chickadee above and in these little titmice that took time out for a photo opp in front of my camera. It's the magic that can turn a dull picture …
Soup for Supper
An invitation from my daughter to "Come over this afternoon and make some chicken soup"; a whole chicken simmering for hours until the stock was rich and well seasoned; plenty of chopped fresh vegetables; and a dollop of patience...That's what it took to make a large pot of savory soup. Believe it or not, my …
Love and Circumstances.
The salt marsh in coastal Florida is a very different habitat from my trails in Chagrin River Park, but I love these visits to the Salt Marsh, so I visit the Tiny Lessons Blog as often as I can. I hope you will take this chance to visit it today. You might even want to …
Back on the trail again!
Partly sunny! The weather forecast predicted some sunshine, and partly sunny it was. In recent days (weeks? months?), we have had many rainy, windy, frigid, icy, snowy weather days, but very few (if any) sunny ones. At least that is how it has seemed to me. When today's partly sunny prediction actually came to pass, …
Who knew…
...that a bushy tail would make a great umbrella? Apparently the squirrels knew! The hungry birds that braved the downpour to visit the Backyard Buffet on this miserably wet day did not have the same advantage of a built-in umbrella. This was not a good weather day for the bedraggled birds. Let's hope, for the sake …
Rain-streaked and wind-swept
After several day's absence, the Eastern bluebirds reappeared at the Backyard Buffet this morning. Unfortunately, our recent weather has not been kind to the little birds. Instead of sunshine and blue skies, they have been welcomed by rain, wind, and cold temperatures. This morning the weather was especially unpleasant and has gone from unpleasant to …
Lazy Sunday afternoon
After church and lunch, it was far too cold (about 16 degrees) for a trail walk, so I decided the best thing to do would be relax and read. Picking up this book I found in the bookstore before Christmas, that's exactly what I did. It has been a quiet, peaceful afternoon. This is my …
Especially for bird lovers…
My "Pics" for the Week...January 1-7, 2017 All the "Pics" for this week are birds (except for two squirrels that sneaked in when I wasn't looking) 😃. All pics were taken in my "Backyard Bird Buffet." The first week in January has been very cold (currently 12 degrees) and more cloudy and wet than sunny, …
SEEN ALONG THE TRAIL 