Category Archives: seasons
loving
things we’ve been loving on this new-to-us patch of Earth: bullfrogs and tadpoles wild plums and crab apples a red tree against the morning sky bike rides to the library weekends that are entirely ours crunchy leaves lots of crunchy … Continue reading
a hairy fellow
The two harbingers of spring in these parts are the Mountain Bluebird and the Pasque Flower (Prairie Crocus). Bluebirds are tough to miss: an impossible blue, a merry flight, a preference for open land where they are easy to spot. … Continue reading
two worlds
Yesterday we watched a water glider skitter around in fresh snow melt. Water gliders make me think of summer. Wow. We didn’t have to travel far, though, to forget those thoughts. Just inside RMNP there’s still deep snow. While there … Continue reading
lessons from spring
in the last two days we’ve seen mountain bluebirds return from their southern home, wyoming ground squirrels emerge from their underground beds, earth worms tilling the earth, geese announcing their northward flight, and the most unbelievable: an itty-bitty grasshopper, plucked … Continue reading
march
The wild ride is about to begin. This weekend we were skiing out our front door in 18 inches of fluff. Today the sun overwhelmed us on our early morning walk. There are some crazy days ahead, no doubt. I … Continue reading
autumn gatherings, clothes boys and other unrelated moments in time
We have been blessed, this fall, with some unbelievable warm weather. Summer’s heat blazed right through September and into October. Something’s broken in me because even though I knew I should be grateful for warm sunshine-y skies and the absence … Continue reading
the tree we love
Every morning after breakfast we rush to get our teeth brushed, bodies slathered with sun protection, and feet out the door to enjoy a morning walk before little Berg gets sleepy. The walk is never as long as we’d like, … Continue reading
more of the princess
It seems all I have been posting about is the emergence of spring. And though our daily lives are filled with magnificence, nothing can really compare to the magnificence of spring in the mountains. The beauty of spring is … Continue reading
back to the woods
The boys have been flitting about in the woods while I’ve been elsewhere. Today, we wanderd together again. They were climbing rocks as usual, while I listened to the sounds of the forest. There’s so much to notice right now. … Continue reading
momentum
When E-man awoke today he asked, “Is it going to be sunny today? It seems so long since we’ve seen the sun.” And indeed it was sunny. A perfect sunny spring day, with the neighborhood teenagers all in deep, spring-clean … Continue reading
