Lets Jump Together

Our trusty snow plow, or The Beast, as it is appropriately named, sits patiently in the snow.
It hasn’t seen the road for years - it only gets to drive up and down the driveway.
And push snow.
It has been a hard year for it this season, though.
The brakes went three storms ago, and after the last [...]

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
-by Helen Keller

I knew as soon as I awoke that we had received the predicted snowfall overnight.
I didn’t have to go to the window.  I didn’t have to turn on the TV or the radio.
It was all in the sound - or should I say the silence.
We live in the country, so it is always very quiet [...]

We had a new visitor to our feeder today - a Red Bellied Woodpecker.
It was the first time I had seen one like him, and when I checked my field guide, it stated that their normal habitat range was quite a bit further south than we are.
His body has the markings of most of the [...]