No matter whether the cherry blossoms and first-wave spring flowers come early or late, whether spring is a wet and cool or warm and lovely (well, spring is always lovely in Maryland), or…
Well, this certainly wasn't anything I was expecting to see upon coming home this afternoon.
bear witness to the journey
Poor little thing must have traversed earlier today rather hot asphalt, then it…
I‘ve been noticing more of my hair these past few days. Not the hair ON my head, but the hair FROM my head that’s now on the bathroom counter, on my clothes, even,…
How did I go from wearing a cashmere top, wool socks and boots but a few days ago to, now, sweating in a tank top, light summer skirt and bare feet?
Then the weather…
It’s deep in winter and my hands are soft and smooth. My cuticles? Them too. No dry, cracked skin. No flaking itchy skin. No hard, dry cuticles that creep up each year as…
I wondered, a couple weeks back, how “the birds” emptied my bird feeder in one fell swoop. In less than 24 hours. Went from full to not full.
I was pretty sure it wasn’t…
I saw two owls in two days: one Friday night and one Saturday evening! And I saw them in completely different locations.
I occasionally hear owls (especially the bard owls), but this past weekend,…
This past mid-October, I’ve had a daily afternoon visitor: this rib-cage showing, adult female deer who — and I’ve witnessed it — is still nursing two larger fawn.
There’s an oak tree in my…
We all get our small pleasures in life: the little things we enjoy simply because we enjoy them. For me, one of them is watching the birds outside my large sliding glass doors…
I have a most-beautiful view from where I live.
I look out over Lake Elkhorn in Columbia, Maryland. (Well, I see the lake more fully when trees have lost their summer green, as they…
The whole pork taboo thing.
Not that I've delved into it and its origins, so much. More that I just never really saw much logic in the explanations given and meant to deny…
We can pretend we're all modern and sh*t. We can wall up in our houses, our structures, our vehicles. We can turn the heat on when it's cold and the AC on when…