The medallion was gone.
Fourteen year-old Carlie’s heart pounded.
“So where is it? You took it, didn’t you. It was MINE!” Her older brother Anthony bellowed.
She tried unsuccessfully to keep the muscles in her face from lifting the ends of her mouth into a smile.

Mid- to late Winter is a hard time for birds. As winter drags on and plants remain dormant, their available supply of seeds becomes depleted. Birds require a lot of food to maintain their high metabolism. Flying takes a lot of energy! Birds are always looking for something to eat.

Ah, morning. There’s nothing like the freshness in the air and the amazing light as it spills over the eastern horizon and reaches across the sky. Birds flutter and twitter, and deer graze in the peaceful dawn.
During his time at Walden Pond, Thoreau found out how precious those early morning hours are as the world wakens.

Okay – so it’s not really a ‘farm.’ But that’s what my family has always called it. It’s land that my dad and my uncle bought after they both returned from WWII.

All across North America, sometime during the two and a half weeks surrounding December 25, people count birds! It’s the Christmas Bird Count – and it’s coming soon to your area, if it hasn’t happened all ready.

People may find God in a cathedral, temple, synagogue, mosque or any number of religious buildings. But to me, the original cathedral, temple, etc., etc., is outside. There, I am most awed by God’s creation. It is God’s great gift.

Somewhere in a galaxy far, far away…
Aviva lay in bed and waited for light to seap around the drapes that covered the windows. The knobby joints of her hands and feet ached.

12:30 a.m. Thursday, December 22. The winter solstice  is the time of the year when the sun is at its lowest… Read more Special Post: Winter Solstice and Halcyon Days

Bark is the protective lining of the living tree. This ‘skin’ bears scars and wrinkles that testify to the trials of its life. Wounds scab over, leaving a lump, slash, or sometimes a knob. The bark of each tree is like a unique fingerprint, exclusive to that tree species only.
Today’s activity is tree fingerprints!

“The muted tones of winter allow for the discovery of nature that is concealed by the busyness of other seasons.”