Chicago, April 2008

For to Be a Farmer's Boy, 1887

Winslow Homer 1836-1910

Late Night Drama

We are groggy from late nights watching the WILD play the Avs.
Some great moments but last night was rough.
Jacques expression tells all.

Photos: Getty

Spring Travels to California

We enjoyed a week in Monterey and Lake Tahoe with family.

PEEPS over the years....

Our local paper has yearly contest for PEEPS Dioramas

Our group at work has entered for the past four years.

Three of our entries are below.

2008 Goodbye Brett.

2007 Twin Cities Marathon

2006 Olympic Curling Gold Medal

A Morning in the Woods

Today while tracking turkeys in the woods I learned that:

They can run faster than I can .

They are shorter than I am so can get through the bush without ducking.

They might be a little smarter than I am.

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Happy New Year!

Birds in the City

In the last two days I have spotted a number of neat birds.
( none of the photos are mine)

And the last but not least,

a Pileated Woodpecker a block from home.

Click on the link below to listen to it's call.

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/audio/Pileated_Woodpecker.html

Last Days of Autumn

Savoring the Season

wild abandonment

wrapped around each other —

orange nasturtiums

Haiku By Katrina

Harvest Moon

harvest moon

northland weather

uncertain skies

Haiku by Basho

I hope you had a chance to see the Harvest Moon this week.

This photo is by David Haworth.

On my drive to work....

I was shocked and delighted to see a large flock of pelicans on the Mississippi. I have been lucky enough to have spotted them several days this week as they migrate south.

What a great way to start my day!

This information is from the Nature Conservancy nature.org

American white pelicans, one of two species of pelicans in North America, are one of the largest of the boreal birds. They can weigh as much as 30 pounds and their wing spans can exceed nine feet.
Unlike brown pelicans, which do not occur inland from the coast, American white pelicans do not plunge-dive to feed. They feed while swimming and work together in groups to encircle and trap their prey, usually small fish or crustaceans. During the spring and summer, a breeding adult may eat the equivalent of 40 percent of its own body mass in a single day.
American white pelicans are highly dependent upon lakes, wetlands and coastal estuaries throughout their life cycles. Their populations are increasingly threatened – especially in the prairie pothole country of the American Midwest – as wetlands are drained.

Populations east of the Rocky Mountains migrate along river valleys, including the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, to their wintering grounds along the Gulf Coast.

Kevin Is Sixteen

Happy Birthday Kevin!

Some moments from the last 16 years...

A good start in life with loving Foster Family.

Sharing a laugh with Grandma







Off to Kindergarten
















Found in
while unpacking gear from camp.