As Twenty-thirteen comes to a close, I happily begin my annual series of sharing precious highlighted encounters with wondrous wildlife here on my farm . . . from the days, months, pages and frames of this last year, pixels will emerge revealing a shared wildness reaching inwards as it dances in the breezes gently floating through fields and forest. Plant, flower and tree memories will also resurface in the upcoming weeks . . . a lovely way to nurture the imagination and keep its rich soil … [Read more...] about The Closing of 2013 ~ Gathering Moments Past Pixels and Pages of Wildlife
Archives for December 2013
A Winter Focus ~ Cedar Waxwing Ornaments and Long Nights Moon
The nakedness of winter's landscape can sometimes seem cold and lonely, when suddenly, whoosh, all together in flight, a flash of fluttering life lifts the spirit high towards outermost tips of a beloved Black Cherry tree. Offering light and enchantment to the lucky viewer, a flock, an 'ear-full', a 'museum' of over sixty Cedar Waxwings alight, sprinkled along the top of the skeletal cherry canopy, resembling delicate ornaments bedecking leafless limbs. A closer focus reveals hints of … [Read more...] about A Winter Focus ~ Cedar Waxwing Ornaments and Long Nights Moon
A Bouquet of Warblers Continues In Plumule Expanse
December sighs and drops whiteness about the land. The last few weeks of 2013 are at hand.Another month unfolds and now a landscape covered in downy snow and ice lies across these hills of Western Massachusetts.I have a new installment of my 'A Bestiary . . . Tales from a Wildlife Garden' up over at Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens.The Black-and-white Warbler joins the lively bouquet of warblers . . . offering its striking plumage to the arrangement of songbirds. I hope you might click … [Read more...] about A Bouquet of Warblers Continues In Plumule Expanse
A Bouquet of Warblers Continues In Plumule Expanse
December sighs and drops whiteness about the land. The last few weeks of 2013 are at hand. Another month unfolds and now a landscape covered in downy snow and ice lies across these hills of Western Massachusetts. I have a new installment of my 'A Bestiary . . . Tales from a Wildlife Garden' up over at Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens. The Black-and-white Warbler joins the lively bouquet of warblers . . . offering its striking plumage to the arrangement of songbirds. I hope you might … [Read more...] about A Bouquet of Warblers Continues In Plumule Expanse
