branches
Cold water, broken twigs, fallen tree… images of a late winter thaw…
Caterpillers
This caterpiller added color to a bleak background and offered hope of more color yet to come.
more trees
The naked trees of winter have a beauty of their own. Their beauty is in their shape. Some trees appear very geometrical, with their branches headed off in different directions. Other trees appear more rounded. The bumps and lumps and holes in the trunks are more noticeable now.
no boats yet
This is the pier at Beaver Island State Park, still clogged with ice. It was near this pier that I met a man who had ice fishing gear in his vehicle. He was ready to go on the ice. He took a large, pointed stick and poked at the ice to determine how solid it
great book!
Adams vs. Jefferson, by John Ferling, is an interesting book that took me all of about three days to read. It is about the hotly contested election of 1800 and the events that led up to it. Although the book is factual and historical, it is as exciting as a mystery.The two main characters in
Hannah
This is little Hannah. She is the daughter of my friends Gabe and Kristen and the granddaughter of my friends Joe and Marie. Last summer, I crocheted a blanket to welcome her into the world.She didn’t really need the blanket during the summer, though. It was already toasty warm without a heavy purple and pink
snowstorm!
When I went out to bring the garbage cans back, this is what I saw across the street!And this is nothing compared to other places, where the snow has been falling for days on end…
