yesterday...

...i noticed it was really beginning to look a bit Fall-like...

birds

cardinal, taken last winter in our boxwood

reading about cordelia stanwood today in birdwatching with american wome: a selection of nature writings edited by deborah strom. picked up the book from the annual library book sale. cordelia's story is both inspirational and sad. makes me want to wear ankle-length skirts and go out in the pasture and draw birds.

pictures

july moon



august moon with clouds





morning glory

before the one hundred days

the "altar" in my bathroom (please excuse the toothpaste and cat hair)

i've not been on here in quite a bit. things, meaning life with its ups and downs, seems to have kicked my backside quite a bit in the interval. in the last few days, however, i've come across a very interesting and honest blogger who is posting a one hundred days diary of sorts about change for the good. i thought that perhaps i shall do the same. but i want the last one hundred days of the year, beginning on september 23rd (i think. even if my calculations are a bit off, i've always done "interesting math to my own drum beat" as one of my math teachers told me).

so this is a pre-one hundred days post. i wanted to show my bathroom "altar." it's a candle, a brown river rock and a set of windchimes with the sun on one side and the moon on the other (light half of the year and the dark half of the year).

so. we'll see where this goes.

2010 biodiversity reading challenge

i'm signing up for the 2010 biodiversity reading challenge hosted by sylvia at classical bookworm...if any feels like participating, please go on over and sign up!

halloween morning pictures

the moon

don't you just love the Moon? isn't it gorgeous, especially on crisp Fall nights?