Honey, Honey

I'm patiently waiting for a honeyberry fruit this year.

The Pasque and Present

Pulsatilla vulgaris
Also known as the pasqueflower and a symbol of Easter.

Lettuce Eat Cake

The first thing to pop it's head out of the ground is lettuce.

I love it's determination even in 20 degree weather.

Holla In The City of Skwala

 Newly emerged molting Skwala Stonefly along the Deschutes River

Trip to Mecca....the Other Mecca

 Spring walk along the Deschutes River by Mecca Flats

Bugs, Birds, and Butterflies

End of the Line

The practice of reflective meditation, which consists of holding certain ideas in the mind long enough to enable them to form emotional connections, tends to break up the crust of habit and to create a new will. ~Walter M. Horton

Spring

 Spring is in the air....literally

Water Cooler

Bees are headed to the water like it's nectar from the gods.

Ring Around

Sky Rockets In Flight

 Girls are excited for spring

 But don't get too anxious

There's little for you to eat right now. 

Orchid-stra

Makes my heart sing

Curly White Pine

 I love finding a new plant or tree that you normally don't see.

The curly white pine is the Willy Wonka of trees.

As The Crow Flies

You can't measure life by how the crow flies,

It's the turns and twists that make life interesting.

Hootie Hoot

 The Wise Owl
The wise old owl
Sat in an oak.
The more he saw,
The less he spoke.
The less he spoke,
The more he heard.
Why can't we be like
That wise old bird?

First Signs

How often have you heard it said, "Oh, it passed the time anyway."

As if time didn't pass quickly enough.

Sad really, for, as Benjamin Franklin said,

"Do not waste time, for that is the stuff life is made of"