It was quite a wade for the small dog.
where blue hills meet steely sky
The mood's indigo.
Before we get back
darkness will fall in the woods.
Snow lights our path home.
I'm an artist and writer who lives in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio. With this blog, I hope to show what happens when you make room in your life, every day, for the things that bring you joy. Strange...most of them are free.
Aug. 28-Sept.1, 2019: Julie Zickefoose-Saving Jemima keynote, field trips, live sketching workshop at Yampa Valley Crane FestivalBud Werner Memorial Library at 1289 Lincoln Ave., Steamboat Springs, CO. Info at https://coloradocranes.org
Sat. Sept. 21, 2019, 11 AM: Julie Zickefoose, "Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-luck Jay" at John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, 1201 Pawlings Rd., Audubon, PA 19403. Conrad the Jay will also appear!
Sun. Sept. 22, 2019, 2 PM: Julie Zickefoose, "Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-luck Jay" at Jenkins Arboretum and Gardens, 631 Berwyn Baptist Rd., Devon PA 19333 PA. Call (610) 647-8870 for information.
Oct. 18-20, 2019: Julie Zickefoose-Saving Jemima keynote, field trip at Wings Over Water Wildlife FestivalField trip to Mattamuskeet NWR 9am-noon Sat. Oct. 19; keynote "Saving Jemima" at 6-9 pm Sat. Oct. 19 at Pamlico Jack's Restaurant 6708 Croatan Hwy, Nags Head NC 27959. Info at https://www.wingsoverwater.org/schedule.html
Tues. Nov. 12, 2019, 7 PM: Julie Zickefoose, "Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-luck Jay" at Licking Land Trust 30th Anniversary Celebration, Slayter Auditorium, Denison University, Granville, OH. Call 740-587-4104 for information.
Thurs. Nov. 14, 2019, 7:30 PM: Esbenshade Series at Marietta College presents Julie Zickefoose, "Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-luck Jay" at Peoples Bank Theater,, 222 Putnam St., Marietta, OH 45750. Call 740-371-5152 for information.
Fri. Jan 17, 2020, 10 AM and 1 PM: Julie Zickefoose, "Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-luck Jay" at Friday Lecture Series, Ding Darling NWR, Visitor and Education Center Auditorium, Sanibel Island, FL. For more information, call 239-472-1100 ext. 241.
March 11-15, 2020: Julie Zickefoose Bird Friendly Backyard workshop and Saving Jemima talk at Joint Conference, N. American Bluebird Society/Bluebirds Across Nebraska, Holiday Inn Convention Center, Kearney, NE. Right in the middle of sandhill crane migration! Call (308) 237-5971 for reservations.
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6 comments:
Those are good babies to be so sensitive to the space their Mom was in. So, heave ho, all four went out for an evening walk. Beautiful. And I love when you wrote about the snow providing the light. I love what snow can do when it's not trapping cars and vans in its clutches.
All winter long, it has been either snow or the threat of snow. It's like being at war... with Winter itself. And it is winning....
Thanks for sharing the beauty of your bad times. It was good for us. I guess we'll have to move to Alaska to get warm winters. Even in Georgia, we are having our second winter storm.
But here in Okefenokee NWR, we only get rain a some freezing - no photographic opportunities.
Thanks for sharing yours.
hadn't even checked here when I posted yesterday about the blue and the white in my world. Blue sky, white snow, mostly beautiful, but yeah, the digging out part is getting tedious.
Your driveway story reminds me of a time a ski coach put a van into a ditch while trying to get 8 boys to our place for dinner. Took two sno-cats from the ski area to haul him out of the invisibly white-outed drainage ditch on the access road. Most embarrassing for the coach, and I think we did end up with some over-cooked pork and rice...
Not sure what's headed our way for tomorrow, but I'll be fine with some melting elements, if that's what we get.
xoHodge
Aside from all our human grumbles I worry about the birds like the robins & others who want the ground and don't usually visit feeders
Palmetto fronds make those same swirls in the warm Florida sand.
I hope your winter breaks soon.
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