Friday at the BirdFeeder (and a Paris TV series for good measure)

Okay, that was a rather horrid week. And the month before it wasn’t so great either. But I’m going to hope that I’ve got the year’s worth of viruses done with in one convenient, concentrated…

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Weight Loss, the Hard Way. . . .

The “good news” is that the scales tell me I’ve lost 6 pounds since Saturday. . . . The bad news is a most horrid variety of Gastro-enteritis (or some such beast)… I thought I…

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In the Deep February of Winter. . . . Some Garden Colours for You

As you can see from this post on my Instagram account, we’ve just had another snowfall this week, and we’re apparently in for a week of precipitation at temperatures on either side of freezing.  The day…

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Here and There — and a Few Thoughts about the Distance Between Them

I completely forgot about this post I drafted over two weeks ago, and I hope you won’t mind its belated appearance here. It was such a struggle to write, somehow, that I’m unwilling to simply…

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January Reading

In January last year, I wrote that I wanted to write here more regularly, and that I thought a way to do that would be to post as I was reading a book rather than…

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.