Connecting Readers to Nature Through Writing, Photography, and Education. Bearing Witness to Local Natural History- from the wildness of Indiana. Sunday, November 29, 2015. Time to Prepare for Nesting- Bald Eagles. The local Bald Eagles are preparing for the next nesting season. They are present nearly every day now and have been carrying grasses to the nest for the coming season. They have nested here every year since 2008. Tuesday, November 10, 2015. I am seeing differently these da.

Saturday, December 19, 2015. A Christmas Shop in Salzburg, Austria. Colorful displays filled windows in meticulously maintained, centuries-old wooden buildings. Summer flowers spilled over flower boxes, as if to tickle our heads when we stopped to admire a window display. We were two of the expected one million tourists who would visit Salzburg this past summer. It was a magical stop. The Little Girl inside me spark.

Rain at Flying Hat in central Texas. I am closing with a video of my petting a wild, juvenile cottontail rabbit. I have seen its parents in the tall grass, not far from where I rescued the roadrunner from the water trough. Yes, I know as you do, cycles of life and death on ranches, farms, cities, and this good earth. And, lately, rain has fallen. Filed under Flying Hat Ranch. Tagged as A Sand County Almanac.

Think that my love for birds is pretty well-established now. This is absolutely fabulous for those of us who use them as inspiration. We can rest pretty assured that we will never run out of subject matter.