Dear Friend…

My daughter sent me a picture today of our precious little boy.  It looks like he is talking with his little, stuffed monkey so I thought I would write a poem to go with the picture.  Sure love this little guy!

Mallard Ducks and Baby Calves w/Daughter

Went to town today to get an oil change for my Explorer.  After leaving there, I went to one of my favorite spots for pictures…..the bridge at the base of the mine hill.  Besides the beautiful scenery, there were some mallards swimming on the river.  Mallard ducks have the prettiest heads, such a vibrant green.

Mallards on River

I also decided to drive up to the reservoir.  Not much happening there but it was a beautiful day and it looks like fishermen/women were enjoying the warmth by fishing outside their huts.

I stopped at the gas station to get gas and BOOM, gas had gone up from $3.19 to $3.55 in one day……………..  It’s sad that somebody needs to fill their pockets to overflowing and I know it isn’t the gas stations making the big profits.

Almost home when I noticed the baby calves in the field with their mammas.  I do miss having all the baby calves on our place.  Not so much the mammas, but the babies are so cute with their big black eyes and super long lashes…………cute, really cute!

Way back when………….like around 25 years ago, we had a couple of calves that for some reason were not able to stay with their mammas so we brought them on our yard.  They were great playmates for our daughter, even sleeping and playing in the sandbox with her. 

She named them too.  The one standing was starlight and the one with the white face was moonshine.  And I’m positively sure that the piece of straw or the stick she had in her mouth was absolutely sanitary! 

If she wasn’t sleeping or playing with them, she was trying to ride them.  They actually made pretty good buddies for her.  Although, right after taking the picture on the bottom, Starlight bucked her off – OUCH!

Chickadee – dee – dee

When I went outside this morning, I heard and saw three chickadee’s flying from tree to tree and then to our bridal wreath spirea bushes.  I followed them from tree to tree to bush, trying to get a picture.  Just when I was about to give up and was just standing there, one came and landed on the spirea bush right next to me.  Snap – got a good picture.

Chickadees are one of my favorite, little birds.  They take me back to my childhood and the fun I had trying to imitate their call.  While searching YouTube, I came across this song about the Chickadee.  If you don’t want to be singing this song all day long, I’d advise you not to watch the video.  If you want your spirits lifted and something that will put you in a happy place, then by all means………………. WATCH THE VIDEO!

Chickadee Music Video

Finding The Green In Spring

I stepped outside this morning in 24 degree weather to put a letter in the mailbox.  You would have thought it was spring the way all the birds were singing.  I couldn’t see the birds but one of the sounds I heard sounded like a meadowlark.

Meadow Lark Singing

Awe, spring!  I thought….it sounds like spring so maybe I could find something green, other than our pine trees, that would make it feel like spring.

 

Out in our garden spot, I brushed away some dirt and dead leaves and actually found some green, frozen-in-time green, but hey, it was still a smidgen of green.

 

Defeated from my quest to find something really green, I headed back to the house and it was there, right on the ground, that I spotted green.  It wasn’t the green I was hoping to find but still, it actually made my day…………….it was a bright green in the mist of brown, greys and dullness……….a part that my husband uses in his work.  I know, weird, but this little bit of green lying on the ground actually made my day!