Yellow Blooms, Late February

  Nine days after I brought forsythia branches indoors I found the first three flowers opening. By today—day eleven—the whole arrangement is showing off. Through the yellow tinged branches I can see a red cardinal flitting around in the falling snow. Two thirds...

Drifting

  Today’s word: drifts. It’s hard to measure a snowfall on a morning with the wind howling and snow blowing about forming clouds in the otherwise blue sky. We braved the weather to feed the animals, shovel some paths, clean off the cars. And now...