Where to start with how much I have enjoyed this post! Like eating a gramma's favorite jumble cookie! With so many delicious treats in every bite. I am so delighted by your encouraging us all to take kids out for winter walks! It is so important to have kids experience nature and gather in their own memories and first impressions. This is the best way to save our planet! And besides, we need these walks, too! :-)
So interesting about the Carolina Wrens taking up winter residence with the help of the feeding stations. I do not have Carolina Wrens anytime of year here in the Pac NW but I do have several other winter birds. I have a very old and healthy stand of Quince that I throw daily rations of bird seed into which many birds and I am sure other animal benefit from. Absolutely fell in love with the little night gangster Houdini and the wonderful supportive love he has been given! And thank you so much for bringing both Field Guide to the Anthropocene and Sherrie York's fantastic linocuts to our attention. I would love to have the one with Pileated woodpeckers! That just right detail of things like the shadow and light play on the trees and snow!! So fresh! 1001 SPECIES is fast becoming a Sunday favorite! Many thanks!
Well, half right - 49 years in England and 26 in Quebec. Best of both worlds. Thanks for your kind words - getting cold here but a daily outside visit is obligatory ... things to see.
Ha, I only recently subscribed and somehow thought you were in Europe. While reading, I felt something was off with those bird species you saw.... OK, coin dropped at some point. Great writing, nice motivation to keep spending time outside!
Those linocuts are quite remarkable.
Thanks Sandy for your kind words ... it really encourages me to continue - be assured that I will once inspiration strikes for a subject next weekend.
I heard this once:
No one knows
Where the hobo goes
When it snows
Not true! He must leave tracks in the snow, mustn't he? Maybe an essay on snow tracks left by birds and animals in forest or yard?
Where to start with how much I have enjoyed this post! Like eating a gramma's favorite jumble cookie! With so many delicious treats in every bite. I am so delighted by your encouraging us all to take kids out for winter walks! It is so important to have kids experience nature and gather in their own memories and first impressions. This is the best way to save our planet! And besides, we need these walks, too! :-)
So interesting about the Carolina Wrens taking up winter residence with the help of the feeding stations. I do not have Carolina Wrens anytime of year here in the Pac NW but I do have several other winter birds. I have a very old and healthy stand of Quince that I throw daily rations of bird seed into which many birds and I am sure other animal benefit from. Absolutely fell in love with the little night gangster Houdini and the wonderful supportive love he has been given! And thank you so much for bringing both Field Guide to the Anthropocene and Sherrie York's fantastic linocuts to our attention. I would love to have the one with Pileated woodpeckers! That just right detail of things like the shadow and light play on the trees and snow!! So fresh! 1001 SPECIES is fast becoming a Sunday favorite! Many thanks!
Well, half right - 49 years in England and 26 in Quebec. Best of both worlds. Thanks for your kind words - getting cold here but a daily outside visit is obligatory ... things to see.
Ha, I only recently subscribed and somehow thought you were in Europe. While reading, I felt something was off with those bird species you saw.... OK, coin dropped at some point. Great writing, nice motivation to keep spending time outside!