Tag: Illinois
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A little home, a little here, a little there.
This Wednesday post is the one that portrays how I am living more than any other. In pieces. Different hemispheres and different roles. Typical for a mother of far flung children. Juggling many balls above my head. First: The Farm in Illinois A couple of inches of snow and cold temps. Everything is handling the…
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Toads Do Not Become Princes you Know
But I have seen a lot of princes become toads. This toad was calmly waking across the bottom step of the verandah before seeing us and hopping (literally) back into the bed of leaves. He is an American toad (Anaxyrus americanus). Very common. And so delightful. He may even have been hibernating there. (I leave…
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Do you know what This Bird Is?
As the trees grow in our wilding areas so too do the bird populations. We are in Illinois, just about 100 miles South of Chicago and many of our birds fly South for the winter. And now they are coming back. And this tiny brown and white speckly bird, about 4 inches long I think…
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Sunday Mornings used to be Coffee and Newspapers.
Do you remember those days? I loved the Sunday newspaper. How it was really fat, fat enough that everyone had a favourite section and took it off into a corner like a dog with a bone. I also loved how – if you got Saturday right – then Sunday was a proper day of rest.…
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Dawn Chorus – In Surround Sound
The bird song sounds of the dawn caught on video. There are a short few minutes just as the sun is rising when all the birds put aside their differences and pipe in the light. They rise onto their toes in the trees and sing their tiny generous hearts out. As the burning colors of…
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