Foster Grandmother

Foster Grandmother

Early in April I go to the Wild Bird Center to buy seed for the clear plastic bird feeder stuck on my third floor apartment window. When I start to refill the feeder I am startled to see a bunch of scattered wispy weeds. I wonder, is someone building a nest? I put the...
A Day at Squaw Creek

A Day at Squaw Creek

My sister, Pam and I spent a day this week driving around the 3,400 acres of Squaw Creek’s wetlands. We anticipated seeing thousands of Snow Geese. We drove and drove…finally one lonely Snow Goose sitting by the side of the road. We assumed he(she) was ill...
A Sign of Change

A Sign of Change

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 and the Village Presbyterian Church steeple is scheduled to be lowered to the ground. The big crane arrives about 8:15am. As time passes various folks come from the church to stand on the sidewalk across the street. None of us are engineers...
Spring in January

Spring in January

Today is Martin Luther King Day, mid-January and it is 64 degrees in Kansas City. Last night I watched PBS’s American Experience, Klansville USA. Fascinating history of the KKK in North Carolina – a larger group than all the other states of the south put...
Birds in the Cold

Birds in the Cold

I had to have one more hike before returning home. Zero degrees, minus twenty-two wind chill, but sunny and beautiful. Ben and I bundle up with everything warm we have. Ben is wearing the warm, warm, warm blue coat that Rodney bought in Vienna in 1988. That was a fun...