by Priscilla H Wilson | Jan 4, 2015 | Birding, Family, Photography, Writing
Look out the kitchen window of Ben and Tina’s new house in Vadnais Heights, MN and you see snow, bird feeders and a stretch of woods beyond the wire fence complete with deer and wild turkeys. Two grandsons, five great grand children (ranging in age from ten to...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Jun 30, 2014 | Birding, Photography
Somedays it is amazing who shows up on your doorstep…or on your light fixture in this case. A friend called yesterday afternoon to tell me about a bird nest by our garage door. A scissor-tail flycatcher is the identity her husband gives the momma. I rig up my...
by Priscilla H Wilson | May 17, 2014 | Birding, Photography
“Priscilla, how many Mays do you think you have left?” the question I asked myself several years ago. Ask any birder and they will tell you nothing else should be scheduled during May while the warbler migration is happening. It is such a short and...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Jan 1, 2014 | Family, Photography, Travel, Writing
Christmas and the Mountains gallery Christmas in the mountains isn’t the same as on the midwest plains. My two older grandsons, their wives and children traveled to the other grandparents for Christmas … so the rest of us figured out a different kind of...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Nov 7, 2013 | Photography, Travel, Writing
What is it about walking on ancient cobblestones that fills the air with mystery? I climb one more set of dark, curved, stone steps and raise the question, “How many feet have climbed these worn steps?” Fog envelops us as we leave Paris. Soon a sense of softness fills...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Oct 27, 2013 | Family, Photography, Travel
Floating mist softens the air in the gardens of Giverny, France. As we round a curve on the pathway I can imagine Claude Monet studying the many colors as he applies his imagination to the canvas before him. I click my camera and capture scenes that have become world...