birdsong

A Whole World Waits

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. —Laura Ingalls Wilder The next time you step into a field or walk your neighborhood, consider it a museum, a fine arboretum, a famous concert hall, and see the wildflower, hear the birdsong, feel the undulations of a west wind as you watch the sunContinue reading “A Whole World Waits”

This little bird sang from time to time just outside our window; he must have been nestled in the giant Afghan pine that towers over our house, but I could not see him when I looked out, his song interrupted when I moved the curtain, he longed to be heard but cared not to beContinue reading “Birdsong”

Bright Song

All animals are smothered in their lairs. I am too absent-spirited to count; The loneliness includes me unawares. —Robert Frost I see frozen limbs reaching toward a snow-heavy sky with no wind and only a muted ray of light as if a shade has been drawn under heaven, and I stand for just a fewContinue reading “Bright Song”