Continue Reading Memorial Day Today this country remembers its dead in war. If we consider the fight against religious bigotry, xenophobia, anti-semitism, racism and white supremacy…
Continue Reading Safe Keeping in Stone The last installment in this week on stones is an article about a storage site that holds millions of packages of seeds…
Continue Reading Stonewalled So many captivating things to report on today – still in the mode of looking at people whose hearts are not cold…
Continue Reading Leaving no Stone unturned The last two blogs reported on infuriating political shenanigans. Today, for counterbalance, I am linking to two essays that portray the best…
Continue Reading Thick as a Brick Realizing that our worst fears about Betsy deVos’ plans for the public education system have come true make me want to bang…
Continue Reading Heart of Stone As cold as stone, a heart of stone, trying to squeeze blood out of a stone – so many phrases come to mind…
Continue Reading Status: In Flight I figured we can all use some lift by proxy at the end of this very week. So here are some birds…
Continue Reading Ardeidae Ardeidae is the family name of those long legged waterbirds: herons, egrets and bitterns. Herons are beautiful birds. They come in different…
Continue Reading Shore Birds Will it surprise you, dear Reader, to hear that I sometimes have a vivid imagination? Most of the time, to be honest?…
Continue Reading In Need of Cheer? The goldfinch it shall be…..captured year-round in places near Portland. At Least 47 Shades The goldfinch in its full spring molt. The bee pollen of sticky and thick. The quince to perfume…
