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Musings on cats, travel, gardens and life
I rummaged through my pictures from last week, looking for some to fit the theme of this week’s #Sunday Stills Challenge, Before and After. I found a sunflower, all wound up and tightly coiled, before blooming; and his neighbor, sad and droopy, after. And… Continue Reading “Nature Shots Before and After”
I’ve shared many pictures of Clematis Montana, a faithful, pink, prolific climber, that lights up my garden every year in May. But rising above the fray, here and there, is another clematis with large white blossoms few and far between. It stays put year… Continue Reading “Clematis – Two Ways”
That’s what a group of hummingbirds is called. I rarely see them in groups, though I occasionally see a couple sparring for rights over the feeder. So last month during our record deep-freeze, 14 degrees overnight, I added an extra one to a new… Continue Reading “A Charm of Hummingbirds!”
Don’t you just love the unexpected? Last Saturday I went for a walk at Coulon Park to see the Winter Lights. I was there late afternoon, waiting for the lights to come on after sunset, which was to occur at 4:18 p.m. It was… Continue Reading “Nature Bests the Winter Lights at Coulon Park”
A misty day in the Pacific Northwest and I offer to help my husband stack wood. The fragrance of the freshly split Douglas Fir is indescribable, as we load the wheelbarrow, taking turns delivering the contents to the woodshed. The path is lined with… Continue Reading “Stacking Wood and Hummingbird in Flight”
The droplets clung to the berries as I waited for them – no, willed them – to fall. But they hung on. Tenaciously. Effortlessly. Waiting till no one was watching. Just like tears. Waxing poetic for Sunday Stills, Red and Green. ~ Susanne
One of my favorite places in the world is Olympic National Park in my home state of Washington. And one of my favorite places to visit in the park is Lake Crescent. We spent a few days there last summer and had dinner one… Continue Reading “A Peaceful Sunset over Lake Crescent”
This handsome bird dropped by my backyard this week for some suet and was kind enough to stay till I could grab my camera. (I’d just moved the suet to a new location which I hope will thwart the squirrels from eating it all… Continue Reading “Downy Woodpecker”
Yesterday we took a road trip to Bellingham and on the way passed through the Skagit Valley, where the snow geese have begun to return. They come from their breeding ground in the Arctic, as far away as Russia’s Wrangel Island, a flight of… Continue Reading “The Return of the Snow Geese”
Cats and Trails and Garden Tales 