Sparkling snow and seasonal ceremonies . . .

At last, winter has dumped its trademark on our Northern land.  The world around our country condo and quiet park is heaped in the quiet beauty of winter.  Our little patio is heaped.  I love the charming top hats on the bird feeder and saxophone-playing frog—leaning against the feeder as if he were a bit inebriated.  Against [...]

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Watching for the Lizards

“To think to know the country and not know The hillside on the day the sun lets go Ten million silver lizards out of snow!” Robert Frost, A Hillside Thaw Of all my many favorite poets, Robert Frost is probably my MOST BELOVED!  And undoubtedly, A Hillside Thaw ranks alongside Frost’s Reluctance in the category [...]

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Winter Fragments . . .

Twilight stretching out, shadows lengthening at dusk . . . soon the ice will crack. ———————————– I shiver with awe . . . primal presence on the ice . . . grey Canis Lupus. ————————————- Every night we wait, listening for the shrieking of mating coyotes. Finally we hear them penetrating bedroom walls . . [...]

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Celebrating the Constants

Here is a photo of sunrise over our Northern Wisconsin bay.  The glow on the trees is reflected, as the trees border the bay on the west and catch the glory of the sun rising in the east.  This week Joe and I spent a couple of days at our home on this bay, where the sun [...]

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“A silence deep and white . . .”

“The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white.” from The First Snowfall, by James Russell Lowell Our first significant snowfall of the season began in the gloaming yesterday, and it was busy all night.  Now at 10:00 a. m. [...]

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