Looking for Spring

Two swans have returned to the Indiana Dunes looking for spring. They found a tiny strip of water to swim back and forth in yesterday. Hopefully with today's warm temperatures the ice will melt and the swans will find plenty to eat.

This morning spring appeared in the wind. Just like the morning that comes every July with a breathe of the winter to come---today, in February, spring's breathe has blown in.  

A Cup of Coffee

Your eyes and the valley are memories,

Your eyes fire and the valley a bowl,

It was here a moonrise crept over the timberline,

It was here we turned the coffee cups up side down,

And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.

I will see you again tomorrow,

I will see you again in a million years,

I will never know your dark eyes again,

These are three ghosts I keep.

These are three sumac-red dogs I run with.

All of it wraps and knots to a riddle,

                                                                                     I have the moon, the timberline, and you,

                                                                                     All three are gone, and I keep all three.

                                                                                       Carl Sandburg, Valley Song

Wednesday Warm Up---Bluebird

A bluebird to warm your heart this morning. Hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day.

The Cloud

Steely winter skies;
Naked branches scraping the
Raw cold air;
The call of the birds flying high
before the storm.

Creek Diamonds

Branches dip their fingers into the icy creek and come up with frosty jewels sparkling like a hundred diamonds.

It's Baaack!

Just when we thought we were going to do without a winter this year, winter has dropped in. I had even put away my snow boots....silly me.

Stay warm.

Warm Up

Step onto this wild sunflower for a warm up today. Looks like the whole eastern half of the U.S. is going to get a dose of winter today with a snow storm predicted. We're in for 12 inches according to the forecasts. Looks like the global warming is leaving us for just a couple of days.