Sunday Safari

It has been a week since I sat outside with the birds.

It has been a week since the sun was out.
I was happy to see the moon.

The indoor tulips are in full bloom.

I have many pots of them.
They are cheerful.
I miss the bugs.

I am on an inner safari.
I am hunting my myths.

I have gathered my books.

I am reading

I am learning.

 I am celebrating the Asian way.

Many of my traditions come from the Greek and Roman stories
yet I have fallen in love

with the dragon and the phoenix.

I was born in the year of the Water Dragon.

My birth year is called

"Dragon in the Rain"

The imagination of the myths fills my soul

with contentment.

My husband also was born in the year of the Water Dragon.

These stories are part of the puzzle of who we are.

The Dragon is the yang

the Phoenix the yin.

I look for the Phoenix.

I look for the Dragon.

I have been reading about painting on silk.

I am gathering silk.

The snows have melted.

Seed catologs are arriving.

We are talking about the gardens.

We are planning for another growing season.

 

I hung cherry blossom lanterns in the Ficus tree.

The clouds have come back.

These are gray January days.

I am dreaming of Dragons

and Spring rain.

Happy Sunday Safari.

Sunday Safari

There was a dense fog this morning

when we went to chapel.

A beautiful, contemplative fog.

There were wild Turkeys feeding near the road.

The ice on the rocks

will melt soon.

Temperatures are to rise above freezing this afternoon.

The indoor gardens are in bloom.

I watched the tulips open.

The Cardinals are enjoying the sunshine.

The snow is melting.
I am going for a long walk and breathe in the freshness.
Happy Sunday Safari.

ABC Wednesday

Z is for Zen

                                                                 and sitting Zazen.

Z is for zipper.

They are showing up in the most unusal places.

Z is for zero.

It has been so very cold.

Z is for the Zephyr.
I call them Fairy Lilies.
I saw them growing wild in Texas last winter.

Z is for Zebra Longwing.
These are my favorite of all the butterflies.

I saw them when I was in Texas last winter.

 Z is for Zeus.

Z is for Zoltar.

Z is for zig-zag.
May you have a zest for life.
May you reach your zenith.
May you know some zanniness.

Happy ABC Wednesday.
We have come full circle.

I am longing for lilies and butterflies.

Sunday Safari

The wind shifted to the south. Temperatures began to rise.

I went outside to spend one on one time with the birds.

                                     The male Downy Woodpecker stays near the suet cakes.

There are many female Cardinals in the trees and bushes.
A few will come to the deck while I am sitting quietly reading my book.

I am adding an Asian influence to my home.

The Carolina Wrens

and the Ruby Crowned Kinglets are coming to the suet cakes together.

The sun was warm but the wind was cold.

When a gust blew across the snow I shivered.

 The little Chick-a-dees struggled in the wind.

The big birds could easily manage the gusts.

The Yellow-shafted Flicker had no trouble with the suet cakes in the window boxes.

There are six Blue Jays in the gardens today.

They have eaten all the acorns we saved for them.

I am putting peanuts out now.

There is harmony in the gardens.

It is cold.

It is January in the mid-west.

The wind finally sent me inside.

The tulips are beginning to bud in my indoor garden.

My Mother-in law gave me a butterfly nectar flower for my birthday.

It is in one of the tulip gardens.

A Monarch, that did not make migration, reminds me of the beauty of the butterflies.

My husband showed me a Cob Web Weaver he found in his home office.

I watched her spin a cob web.

I saw her silk come out of her spinnets.

It is snowy.

We are staying home.

We are having fun.

Happy Sunday Safari.

I hope you also are having Winter fun.