A little glimpse of clean skies and green to refresh my senses when the pollution, etc. gets too bad here.( home )

Sightings:
We have a very, very skittish new visitor to the bird feeder, a great spotted woodpecker (pic épeiche), and I vow to get a better photo. In the meantime, observe that Friendly would like a close encounter with the birds, too >.<( Photos and ramblings this way )

...take and post a lot of photos.

Just scrolling through, looking for a photo I posted during our Mayotte days of our coconut grater--which I couldn't find--keenly reminded me of that.

I must do better.  For my sake, for the sake of my kids.

Like these New Year's Eve photos from a year ago (2019):


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 A few outdoor photos to take my mind off the pain of impending infection blow-up.*

The potager is sleeping, but we have food out for our garden bird helpers:


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My post about the song in support of parents' right to decide on their children's education is a bit long, so I did not want to add to it.  However, I was thinking about how one nation's problems seem foreign, unimportant, and impossible to address to citizens of other countries.  Especially when each of us is already under some kind of "home ( Read more... )

November 29 began like the other mild days we have had thus far this autumn, but by afternoon a London fog had settled on the landscape.  Freezing temperatures during the night gave us our first aerial frost of the year.

Enjoy a little walk with me along our hedge and garden to enjoy the seasonal sight.

Some gold and silver:


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What follows will be long and quite possibly uninteresting for anyone not into growing food, but I wish to get a copy of my thoughts and observations of this growing season (as well as a few comparisons to others) in one place where I can refer back to it.  I mentioned before that I have not really allowed myself the joy of all the work we have ( Read more... )

The broody duck broke open and kicked out her last duck egg. It was a beautiful duckiling, so I have no idea why she killed it. I took the remaining 2 goose eggs away from her and put them in the hated incubator. That is better than losing them to the duck's craziness.

In other duck news, our second female is laying agin, so she will go broody in ( Read more... )

Forgive the hodgepodge nature of this entry, but there has been so much going on this week

- It seems wrong to include this first category in an entry with more trivial stuff, but it has shaped my week and affected me more than the rest, so:

This week, we have been notified of three deaths : the doula who helped bring Farmer Boy and Ti'Loup into ( Read more... )

FYI: Today is not my birthday, Wed was ( Read more... )