Leaves of Three

Leaves of Three

Nature’s green is giving way to a palette of a thousand pigments.   Every hue scatters across the forest floor, like clippings of color drifted down from the easel of the Great Artist.  The tones dance all around me—blazing scarlets, bold goldens,...

Spreading Salt

My game camera captured a photo of me spreading salt. Every season is magical in its own way, but there’s something especially wondrous about fall.     There is much that thrills my soul in this special season.  The gasping heat of summer...
North Star

North Star

If you want a window to the miraculous, wait for sundown on a summer night.   Summer days are bold and brassy—sun that sizzles the hazy hall of sky; shimmering heat squirming serpentine across the parched earth; the throbbing drone of insects clacking...
Lesson from a Lizard

Lesson from a Lizard

There are dinosaurs in my yard.   Ok, perhaps not the lumbering giants of Jurassic Park fame, or the winged reptiles that screeched through the sky.  I have to grudgingly admit that true dinosaurs are folded in the pages of the past.  Yet...
Nest of New Beginnings

Nest of New Beginnings

In the bright hope of early spring, when the season tiptoed shyly from behind the curtain of winter, I heard the familiar whistling call outside my bedroom window.   “Fee-BEE!  Fee-BEE!”   Excitedly I rushed to the window to welcome the...