Tuesday's View

Any other year we'd have the skis out on the back porch...

Sound-mapping

Winter is a quiet season. The birds that woke us up all summer have flown south; there are no crickets and frogs singing. But even in this hushed stillness there is activity. So find a spot where you can sit, and close your eyes and listen. As you tune in to the different sounds of winter you might hear beech leaves flapping, a chickadee calling, a squirrel scolding you from the trees above.

Try making a sound map in your journal. Note what you hear in front of you, to the sides, behind you. Sketch the arc of a jet passing overhead, the traffic noises, a dog down the street.

Tuesday's View

one downy woodpecker braves the falling snow

to get first dibs at the suet...

are all the others hiding in the pines

sipping tea and playing euchre?