With the frost kissing my upturned face, I took the last walk of the year in my favorite…

As the sun appeared, the world filled with bird song, not the trilled, entwined melodies of the spring…

Tonight the wind came like ocean waves birthed from some hidden mountain cove to crash upon our frosted…

The yellow tree denies the turn of the season and holds fast to a single cluster of fluttering…

As the blood spilled, I walked into the cold, intensely aware of every bird sheltered in every hollow,…

In perfect stillness, five robins perched in the peak of the tallest tree like a candelabra, flamed orange…

As the snow began to melt, tumbling from tree branches at the behest of curious crows, it revealed…

On Christmas Eve, as the night began to stir, as the juncos crept into the shelter of thorns…

As we foraged for life in a sleeping world, each intake of breath came sharp with cold in…

As the sun appeared on this wintery afternoon, the Flicker cried out from top of the telephone pole,…

The tiniest spider hung by the tiniest web near our bathroom sink, floating in the lightness of air…

As I looked out on the night waters, the city shimmering in reflection in the distance, the holiday…

I walked away from the setting sun with the wind at my back, the sky a moody sea…

Where there is rain there are the crows, huddled under the grey drizzle, silent, patient, nearly invisible against…

We walked into the wind, my feet soft on fallen needles, my feet hard on cold-packed earth, and…

I love the grey waves and the misted hint of mountains in the distance, the hunched oil slick…

Like a sudden gust of wind it came, pelting the windows with a sharp staccato, tiny asteroids of…

It’s the kind of cold that seeps into your bones, the wet December cold that rattles your teeth…

The sky glowed the deep pink of cold-climate sunsets, rich and soft fuscias edged with rose and crepe…

The geese flew west towards my window, and as they passed I turned away from my screens and…

The darkness took a final hold on the afternoon and then began to falter as the light gained…

I spied it in the few moments I left the kitchen, with the smells of baking cookies and…

Undaunted by the weakened sun, the fog lingered in the valleys for well into the day before returning…

I left the house heading West, riding the edge of the sun as it dipped below the horizon;…

If I were a certain kind of bear, I would be closing my eyes and placing my large,…

Even with my nose just above the water, I can sense the chill in the room, the bite…

There was frost on the grass this morning, the advance scout of the deeper winter approaching, but by…

It was near eleven at night when I left the house and for the first time this year,…

From my perch indoors, I cupped my mug of tea, feeling the warmth spread through my hands, smelling…

The tree soaked up the rain, its long gnarled branches covered in a soft tapestry of moss and…

On this cold, clear night in early winter as the moon is on the very edge of fullness…

After a long day spent without a break, I walked out on the porch and was greeted by…

There in the shallows, framed by the bent bare tree stretching deep into the lake, among the tangle…

The Seattle rain in the winter months is a relentless beast; it wails me in on all sides,…

In the narrow spaces between the dark hours as the winter draws near, the eyes squint and the…

The rain falls heavily, slopping into the mud with the sound of oatmeal; the sky is white, the…

As the twilight fell over the yellow bushes and grey, barren trees, the blackbird’s multi-note timbre rose from…

When I walk alone I am never alone for my company is the wind, the scent of soil,…

Only when all the other branches are bare, when the darkness falls heavy and complete in the mid…

The south wind caressed the ripened guava and gifted the mynah’s wings with flight, then turned north along…

I close my eyes and listen to the rain pouring down on the rooftop and into the street…

My alerts chime and I silence them and the light fades and I continue typing, struggling with my…

There is something in the muffled quality of the air, something in the way that the sunlight shortens…

A slow-moving river of black wings, a scattered murmuration of corvids flew in meandering yet unified nonchalance towards…

We have reached one of the two times in the year where breathing the air feels like drinking…

I hear the landlord’s broom several times a year, brushing the webs away, evicting the community of spiders…

I marvel at the hidden journeys of winter songbirds on days like today as our neighborhood became suddenly…

The simple beauty of geese in flight as sundown approached caused me to catch my breath, their fluid…

For a long time there was nothing but the roar of the wind, the clouds racing across the…

As the rain fell on the hunched silhouette of a solitary crow perched on the wires above me,…

In mid-November, what we call the yellow tree has finally turned yellow, leaving behind its green, shimmering companionship…

In the hour of the wolf, from the edges beyond the wash of the streetlights, the fog extended…

Sometimes, when I go to bed, I think about the coyotes that live in the woodlands that hug…

As I walked on a grey overcast morning, I heard the eponymous chorus of chickadees in the balding…

I am left wondering about that Flicker and the sharp song I heard calling out over the white…

The mornings are cold and the evenings dark as pitch, and as the tangled chaos of squirrel nests…

As we move away from the brilliant fiery finale of autumn into the badlands of greyscale, I struggle…

The crows emerged from the unseen lands, taking to the skies in a sudden black cloud of wings…

The junco called from the fence post, heralding the first snow, and as the soft, puffy flakes settled…

I emerge from my home into a cold silence, a rainbow encircling the moon, wisp clouds passing over…

Reflected by the occluded full moon, the leaves shimmered in the bite of the wind, no longer with…

On Samhain I stroke my prize Raven feather and feel the strong rachis mast that billows the vane,…

He watches over the street at night, sometimes for hours at a time, a tuxedoed crusader attuned to…

After bathing in the ice-cold moon, I trudge home with pink-flushed cheeks to the warmth of my apartment…

At the edge of the lake, the grass had been obscured by reds, oranges and yellows in infinite…

It does not matter the time, whether in the hazy half-dream before my misty morning walk, or basked…

The squirrel froze, barely daring to breathe, whiskers telegraphing trepidation and readiness, his dark black eyes caught in…

I returned to my morning walk today and found a world I had forgotten, full of crows and…

The evening sky glowed a rich pink-red, coloring the distant snowcapped mountains, highlighting the pine-cone shedding evergreens, and…

I’ve spent most of the chaotic months of the spring and summer, those months when large things happen…

When you slow down your perception to the speed of actual change, when you leave behind the human…

Hidden away in a tiny crack in the bannister, eggshell white mushrooms poked their caps into a new…

The charcoal grey clouds loitered sullenly with their backs up against the wind; before them, the single tree…

I watched the world distorted by the grey curtains of rain that fell endlessly from sullen, swollen skies;…

Like an honor guard, the wind storm heralded the Big Dark’s arrival, trees bowed down in reverence, leaves…

I took a break late into the evening and stood swaying on the porch listening to the hush…

Suddenly, the bush tits burst forth from every direction in a celebration of sunshine, chatting merrily with voices…

The sky cleared as my head lifted, wisp clouds floating in blue like sea foam, the storm for…

Saturday was a blur – a faraway world glimpsed in a haze from car windows, a night walk…

The wind is changing; the dark blue of the stormy skies announced its approach, rushing down from the…

The air bit at my cheeks and the wet leaves crunched and shuffled as I scoffed my feet…

I left my house on a morning walk in search of the subtle shifts of autumn and instead…

The grey morning clouds broke apart in indescribable layers of shadow, the trapped sun peering between charcoal edges…

When the day is the same color of grey from morning to night, when no creature stirs and…

The sun shone boldly in a cloudless blue sky, the air sharp and clean, and it might have…

This was a lost day spent deep in myth and saga, in dreams, archetypes and journeys of the…

The wind blew throughout the day and into the evening, rattling my windows and calling to me with…

That sleeping baby with his tiny mouth open has no idea of the wild world that is out…

The October harvest moon hung in the fork of a tree branch like an ornament, no longer the…

Time has again come to the old monk, the tree that stands across the street, home to a…

The weather is turning now, the winds nearly shifted away from the warm meadows and their fragrant grasses…

We sat in the early fall chill, our bodies straining towards any last lingering sunlight as the lake…

I awoke to Raven’s call, the throaty creak of ancient wood, mist and shadow, and before me a…

You could hear the wind coming from a great distance, a stampede of rain and fog that rode…

In near-total silence, lake waters calm as glass, we stood in the darkness with our heads tilted towards…

The summer grabs for the last of the heat, a final blaze before the rains, but in the…

We took a walk in the last of the warm evenings for some time to come, and were…

Sometimes all it takes is a single puffed-up sparrow balancing impossibly on a fuzzy-headed weed to stop me…

In the afternoon, I turned to the closed window and the separation already felt acute, the loss of…

The air is crisp, and even though the winds have yet to change direction, life in the city…

I can see the color change now, a subtle red shift that will begin at the edges of…

From the fisheye, I spied him, the jay on the porch hopping from chair arm to chair arm…

As the first taste of autumn’s rains faded like the moon, unseen jays loudly claimed corners of the…

All around me, the green of fern and vine and moss was alive with new purpose as the…

Inside, grumpy humans caught off guard peer out the windows at the downpour and scramble to gather their…

The bush tits are nestled up close in the protective labyrinth of a solitary tree, hidden away and…

Once again, the skies were hazy with smoke and ash motes rode impossibly small air currents like directionless…

When they cut down all the ancient trees lining our walkway, they left a single stump which soon…

Once I began to take notice of nature more mindfully, I was surprised by the hidden seasons between…

He sat resolute, a splash of neon green against the dull metal mailbox, filament antenna conducting a hushed…

The evening wind was cool and fresh, every cloud tinted a golden pink that slowly ripened into the…

The sun lowers and is caught in delicate webs that are strung from every corner and under every…

Transfixed, I stood in the grass with binoculars in hand, the moon blazing from the dark sky before…

I’m at the point in my life where hearing an unfamiliar bird call causes me to lose all…

Patches of faint blue hesitantly emerged from the haze of ash and smoke and the clouds once again…

As the air slowly began to clear of the ash and smoke from the eastern wildfires, three Stellar’s…

Under the apocalyptic sky, I paused in the crushing heat and ash-choked air to notice the single empty…

The ash fell overnight like first snow on our steps, dusting everything in a fine layer of grey…

As we drove to dinner, the sun struggled with the approaching wildfire smoke – choked orange and glowing…

Walking along the tree-lined island road, we paused to pluck fat, dark blackberries from the spreading brambles as…

The sea stack rose from the surf like some eternally slumbering creature, its back covered in a distant,…

We left the busy ring road that kissed the lake shore in favor of the shadow of tall…

When I woke up today the rain was falling, and as it pattered on the windowsills and cracked…

I took a walk as the sun was setting, earlier and earlier every day, and encountered a single…

As the poplar leaves shimmered in a late summer breeze and the willow stretched its long fingers towards…

In the midst of a stressful day, I opened the door and felt the heat explode inward, blowing…

One of the most important things I’ve learned from doing this project is that the seasons do not…

There’s always solace to be found on the porch in the wee hours of the morning when the…

I’m not sure where the day went, but it was not out the window; the screens and the…

When I leave the wild places, I leave a piece of myself behind; In the empty spaces, the…

There at the edge of the forest we watched the waves crash and withdraw, carving delicate branches into…

The mist rode the water inland, hiding the far shore, snaking around bleached driftwood and dark boulders raised…

I watched the morning sky as the moon devoured the sun in eclipsed totality, watched the night sky…

On that primordial beach cloaked in mist, as the wails of sea birds echoed from the grey beyond,…

The barred owl dozed in the early evening, a soft ball of feathers tucked away in the tree…

A gentle sun shower fell from the lenticular clouds that hovered like floating islands above the highway, casting…

I was interrupted today by the spiders tucked away in the corners of the door frame and found…

And now comes the time of the blackberry as the late summer fruit ripens and the thick vines…

The night is quiet and the cool breeze goosebumps the skin, the midnight sun fades to dark as…

And finally, he has accepted that I will honor his space, to speak softly, to move slowly, to…

There’s an edge in the air now as the temperature drops towards September, the first tinge of chill…

We stood on the porch, listening to the soft, gentle evening rain patter on the split wood, smelling…

Tonight, hanging in the southern skies, the sodalite clouds finally broke through the haze of smoke as the…

As I entered the crosswalk in the early darkness, I heard a rhythmic scratching on the asphalt, faint…

His feathers bleached by sunlight, bedraggled and hoarse, that crow still performed his duty, calling out the hidden…

Under the blood-red moon, the tuxedo cat sprawled on his white belly in a patch of moonlight, staring…

The sun is relentless, drying the grasses to flattened piles of brown hay, charring black the edges of…

The heat builds up against the doors and rushes into the darkened theater like a flood of summer…

On the edge of the lake, beyond the lily pads quivering from the passage of hidden fish, as…

There was nothing but heat today, pressing on every wall and window, filling up every thought until there…

The smoke from Canadian wildfires has cast the evening sky a purplish grey; the haze hangs low and…

I stood watching the Moon through my binoculars, tracing the jagged rock near the dark boundary curve, my…

As the heat rises, I prepare for the sun to beat down in full force on open-mouthed crows…

I love the loud birds, and this newly-arrived pair of Stellar’s Jays are at the pinnacle of their…

The moon, a sliver of white carved into the midnight, a faint pale globe fading into the morning…

Oh little dog, you of eighteen miles and then eighteen more, I relate to your refusal to move…

Three crows spent the afternoon loudly arriving and departing repeatedly as if they were waiting for something to…

When a cool and overcast day appears in the middle of July or August, it’s as if Seattle…

In the fading light, against the midnight blue, two tiny shadows chased the invisible;  the world of words…

A background sound tickled the edge of my brain with familiarity and caused me to rush from my…

Here in the PNW, the hottest part of each day is late afternoon, the nights in summer extend…

There are few things better in the summer than taking a Sunday nap on the sofa, letting the…

And there it was, the perfect summer afternoon and evening, hot but breezy, the passage of time slowed…

Sometimes when I am hard at work in the summer, windows thrown open, I am interrupted from my…

Even as the grass dries and the flowers shrivel, fresh red blooms from the gladiola remind me that…

There’s something about hollow wood echoing in resonance from the heart of the forest, the short staccato bursts…

I cannot tell you what it means to me to stand at the bottom of a hill and…

When I moved in, there were towering pines shading the walkway between the buildings, blanketing the path with…

I left the house in the early morning darkness, turned off the porch lights and sat on the…

I still get a spine-tingling thrill when I am suddenly cast into shadow by a large crow, fattened…

The world beyond the four walls of our enclosed life, beyond the shuttered windows of the self-involved mind,…

A cold wind blew the cards over and goose-pimpled my arms and as I brought out my coat…

I glimpsed the dark, flitting shapes through the window screen and left the house in wonder only to…

The mountain spans the distance between the houses on my daily walk, looming in a shimmering haze on…

My skin still hums from the brace of cold water and when I close my eyes, I can…

After a night filled with demons, Raven croaks his benediction from the church of the pines as I…

Standing in the lake, body numb from the cold, I leaned my head back towards the mottled cloudscape…

The house spiders, the ladybirds, and even that tiny brown-and-white moth, corkscrewing in flight, landing with splayed wings…

I learned today that even though crows are urban wanderers, they sleep miles away in communal roosting trees,…

As I leave the house, the heat radiates from the earth, the dandelions whiten, the ants busy themselves…

The cabbage white butterflies cartwheel through the space above the flowers in a frenetic dance, pausing briefly to…

Humans also undergo cyclical changes and tonight at dinner I noticed the open strides, the upturned and friendlier…

Dragonflies charted courses outside the windows, lifting off from broad leaves; the goggled, tiny pilots hovered to get…

Fresh from the meadow overlooking the sea, where fat dragonflies buzzed and hovered and the speckled seal periscoped…

There is a smell to the early summer night, a certain loamy scent of the earth cooling from…

As I stood on the porch, I suddenly shifted my focus and saw our yard not as the…

I took a walk in the 10pm daylight, down through blue-filtered streets and under the swaying trees, windows…

After the dilation, I was blinded by the light and so strolled down the sidewalk in the darkness…

As I drove around the corner, the moon hung as a perfect golden sliver in a dark blue…

I am also that sluggish crow with his beak open, hopping from roof shingle to roof shingle looking…

When you look for me, you will find me on the fringes, there shadowed among the trees, with…

The flowers have turned the streets wild with blossom and scent, have taken over every corner with petal…

I could hear them long before they arrived, a massive flock of crows searching for a roosting spot,…

Sometime, during the night, the tiniest spider that ever was, thrilled at finding a spot of wilderness within…

This far north in the summer it remains daylight until ten at night, the gentle summer breeze nudging…

I must have walked by those flowers a million times, but it wasn’t until my wife picked me…

I chose to spend this day working in the home, quietly looking out the window at the world…

Beauty and magic resonated around us: the snow of cottonwood, the earthy scent of sage and chamomile, delicate…

The grey pressed against my windows and my cold pressed against my head, until we both gave up…

I was entranced by and in love with that little, spunky, perfect bird hopping along the top of…

The movement of nature also occurs at the smallest level, as I have caught a summer bug, sadly…

Seagulls and crows take to the rooftops in an ancient, endless battle, a Stellar’s Jay ruffles his midnight…

Things were flat today; colder and grayer weather returned, and even the birds seemed like they were taking…

We discovered that the tiny, well-behaved purple potted flowers we bought for the porch last year had somehow…

Camping chairs on the grass overlooked the calm, blue waters that rolled towards shadowed peaks in the distance,…

Now at the halfway mark, standing in a sea of tiny purple, white and pink flowers that have…

I was shocked to discover that the sparrows from yesterday were actually house finches who today lined the…

Today, neighborhood sparrows held a meet up and gathered in vast, chatting numbers in the nearby bushes and…

As the early summer sputters between clear-skied hot nights and the final grips of spring cast in grey…

I had this moment as I felt the cooler air and heard the whishing sighs of the yellow…

One’s indulgence in nature should never be seen as an escape or a procrastination but rather an investment…

On the deck, under the canopy that creaked and popped in coming warmth, the hummingbirds appeared in a…

I’m developing an unhealthy relationship with the tuxedo cat next door who stares at me as I talk…

This afternoon, the crow tumbled through space in a shiny black blur, daredevil diving through the updrafts, catching…

Each afternoon I see him, that tuxedo cat poised on the sunny red brick with his head stretched…

A week-long downturn in weather, the onset of precipitation and cooler temperatures makes me realize, as I document…

When the windows are open, when I am on the porch bathed in sunlight or caressed by breeze,…

I kicked off my shoes and socks, happily tired from hiking through the forest’s tunneled canopy, over the…

We sat in a clearing surrounded by towering pines as the dogs juggled rocks, the donkeys brayed, the…

I spotted my first summer hummingbird in the garden next door, drawing perfect, graceful polygons in the air…

The bumblebees rolled round and fat, their furry striped bodies tumbled in the petal wells, bathing in pollen;…

With the windows wide open, the 70-degree breeze rustled the knick-knacks, the feathers, the oracle cards as sunlight…

The wind burst through the windows in a late afternoon flurry, and everything before it was blown asunder;…

Our California Poppies, the neon-yellow cheerleaders of summer, worked their way nearly unnoticed out of the soil and…

With the windows thrown open, the wind chimes sang a song of coming June, and the chipping birds…

Today the summer took control, the sun dappled on the hillside as the starlings gathered in a circle…

My ideal summer moments all involve long, soft grass and the wind passing through trees that are abundant…

It’s the time of year in Seattle where the sunsets are indescribable in the way they paint the…

As the night approached, robins, perhaps a nesting pair, called out in such luscious thrush vocalizations, that I…

The straggling spring’s rogue clouds engulfed most of the day but gave way late to sunshine that is…

As the season slowly turns into early summer, I enacted a long-desired intention and began to take forced…

As one of my two semi-annual power cycles arrives, I yearn to be outside every minute as again…

As the spring reaches its zenith, you can feel the summer stirring underneath – the sun growing stronger…

The quaking aspen, the one we call the yellow tree, is now at full leaf and shimmers each…

Huddling in the sudden rain, a puffed-up song sparrow sank down into his feet and gripped the wire;…

There’s nothing that brings back childhood summers, those long nights of endless play outdoors, than the chittering calls…

Fed by the record-breaking rainy spring, the grasses are now taking over the world below the knee –…

I stood outside in the warm night air and looked at the sodalite sky, the moon beginning to…

And now, even on days when it is still too cold to open the window, I sit in…

We took a walk in the glorious sunshine today, through the thick-bladed grasses in their brilliant green, under…

The grey fell through the day and into the evening and yet felt so much like early summer…

At the peak of the temperature climb, the thunderstorms came with a bright clatter and a solid deluge,…

During a brief preview of summer, serenaded by the duo-tone whistle of red-winged blackbirds, the earth radiated heat…

The small purple and pink flowers have emerged in what passes for our front garden, long green blades…

I watch the green shoots burst forth and the weather fluctuate between the spring that is only at…

I heard my first chickadee of the year today and it reminded me of how my mother taught…

At 9pm this evening, the darkness was clouded by patches of grey-and-yellow-tinged light that split the sky like…

The sunlight spread against the pane and warmed the room, albeit briefly, nearly tempting me to open the…

As my cough worsened, and my first day of work in nearly three weeks struck, I lost my…

Sunlight to darkness to downpour to grey drizzle to rainbows all played out before my window today as…

Those light green leaves, tender newborns recently emerged from sleep, now arced in canopy above us, filtering the…

We caught a glimpse of spring in England and America as our plane left and arrived, one in…

The mistle thrush bobbed in the low grass, hunting for lunch, powerful white-brown body silhouetted against a brilliant…

As I sat on the bench in the sunshine, a buzzard wheeled and dove, pursued by a single…

Grey skies hung heavily over Sutton Park on our last walk and even the birdsong couldn’t pierce the…

As I stood alone in the middle of the stone circle, the sun drizzled towards the horizon over…

As we sat on the bench facing the lake, the Exmoor ponies drew near, nibbling on grasses, clomping…

In the hidden underbough of a giant yew tree, the widest in all of Britain, we hid away…

On a grey English afternoon, amongst the gorse and heather, the magpies examined the undergrass, heads cocked, tails flicking;…

We drove through the twilight as the spring rain fell on rows of rapeseed; hawks tucking their wings…

We walked through the bright yellow, coconut-scented gorse while strands of heather pushed their way skyward; still bare…

The rain came down on Birmingham streets in a slow, grey drizzle and elsewhere the plant world responded…

Took the train from Sussex to the Midlands, speeding past neon yellow fields of rapeseed, deep green dotted…

I took my shoes off, put my full weight on the tree stump and immersed myself in it…

I love the wind coming to shore from the sea, so all-encompassing and certain, the stuff of dragons…

I caught the sun on my face, illuminating wildflowers, coaxing the new grass into seed, spreading low in…

There is no bird like the English blackbird – the master of composition and improvisation whose warbled symphonies,…

On the motorway south to Brighton, English trees were in full leaf and the magnolias dripped with huge…

After a slow journey across the empty, lake-dotted expanse of northern Canada through a clear evening sky, the…

My day was spent planning and packing and peeking out the window when there was a moment between…

I cannot be sure, but I thought I heard the rambling warble of a finch singing happily in…

The wind turned today, rolling warm and sweet from the meadowlands, causing me to shed my winter coat…

The starling stood with an insect in his beak as large as his head; he puffed out his…

As my neighbors overturned and seeded the beds with future flowers, the scent of fresh soil brought me…

The scent of blossoming trees crawls under the crack in the front door, drowsy blooms push through hidden…

Crows are calling everywhere today, tucking their wings close to their shimmering bodies and launching themselves head-first from…

My heart is full of the spreading boughs of cotton candy cherry trees above my head and of…

The blossoms begin to fall, covering the sidewalk in soft white petals, and that sleek cat, young and…

The crow pulled and pulled at the thin pad that lay under our bed of soil until his…

As I sat at my desk, I noticed for the first time the warmth of the sun on…

I poked my nose out a few times this afternoon; the air smelled of cherry tree blossom, the…

Today was what I would consider the first real spring day – perfect blue skies, cherry blossoms on…

The spring rain fell in a broad, warm blanket, as sudden bursts of sunshine beckoned faint, faded rainbows.…

Everywhere there is bird sign: flickers hammering into telephone poles, puffed-up robins chittering their varied opinions, tits and…

There is a particular moment in this area of the world when the wind turns, shifting from the…

The evening draws the grey clouds close, shepherds them into the night sky, shifting its once midnight black…

As work again shutters the windows and narrows the room to single glowing screen, I trade the world…

Tiny perfect pinecones and delicate white flowers lay in the cracks near the sidewalk, red blossoms hung like…

It was perfection – Peekaboo sunshine seen from a deck overlooking one of my favorite lakes, the breaks…

From the depths of the grey, somewhere behind the sheets of rain, a single songbird played a piccolo…

When the sun finally came out in full force, it revealed a changed world – trumpets of daffodils…

Everything is on the edge of change – a single flower peeks through the chain link, clouds break…

The crows rode the updrafts, dark shapes swooping back and forth across the road as I approached the…

The grey, wet blanket did nothing to deter mating pairs of Flickers who called out their jungle cries…

The cherry trees everywhere were festooned with luscious red and pink buds that glistened in the sun rain…

The rain in March is softer, not the ice daggers of January and February but something more nourishing,…

I barely looked out the window today, other than to watch the tuxedo cat from the corner of…

When I walked outside tonight, I realized I wasn’t wearing a coat and that the air seemed lighter…

Rain is running down gutters choked with old starling nests, the windblown lost, and the hidden treasures of…

I took a walk today through the drizzling rain and observed the promise of cherry blossoms swelling like…

Some small promise of sunlight through the rains and the song of the bird we cannot identify has…

Big, fat raindrops fell against grey skies but also raised the fresh smell of spring. Both of us…

We went looking for cherry blossoms today and found only a single territorial hummingbird fiercely defending his realm…

That cat sitting there, looking up at me quizzingly with his bright eyes and his tuxedo face as…

I heard a single Flicker somewhere beyond my thinking mind, hopping from rooftop to treetop, chirping and chittering…

The world continued without me. There are trying times when my struggles with anxiety and depression come to…

The sun’s arc now rises above our rooftop in the evenings, casting all the bare, budding trees in…

Peals of thunder shook our apartment and the downpour of snow and hail plastered the windows and painted…

I noticed a bursting forth of pink flowers in the yard across the street, the first flowers to…

Inside, outside, internal, external all merged as one today as I slept and slept in sickness. My watery…

The smallest, brightest voice came out of the silence of a cold, blue-skied day, a solo bird song…

And then, the unseen came into blossom and the undercurrents of spring’s thaw ran on hidden journeys to…

Crows were everywhere, calling, scolding, greeting, swooping down through the blue skies, their shadows falling across the stirrings…

The squirrels wandered down from their tangled, leafy nests for the first time this year, pacing low and…

The crows were everywhere today in the grey drizzle, trying to call me outside as I sipped my…

The night sky after a big rain is painted with deep blue clouds – the absolute darkness of…

The air smelled like the rich, loamy awakening of fertile soil in a forest drizzle – fresh and…

Signs of spring are now everywhere, and when the rains come, they come in full force without the…

The days where I am prevented from my relationship with nature, I feel somewhat less than; the days…

As seen through the bright eyes of glistening, wet crows landing next to puddles and searching with cocked…

The first song sparrows arrived today, puffed and proud and fearless in their voices, and made the whole…

Today was all about the Flickers – propped on the telephone poles or perched on high branches, letting…

Bright blue sunlight taunted me as the birds once again began to gather in party-sized numbers, the downturn…

Due to my recuperation and the sharp chill in the air, I did not visit with nature today…

Nothing but the moon tonight, huge and glimmering, skirted by blue-black clouds edged in gold. I sit with…

In a near-60 degree day seemingly borrowed from late spring, I watched the rainbow stretch across our apartment…

There’s a certain quality of winter here in the Pacific Northwest where refrigerator air plummets down the mountains…

As the weather warmed, the streets were slush, and the gutters dripped, and the world outside was shaken…

The snow began late in the evening as slender needles of sleet and rain, but by the next…

Snow is expected late tonight and the air is calm, the skies grey, but there’s not a hint…

Our hummingbird, and the starlings that perch in the highest, thinnest branches of the tallest tree took advantage…

It started early in the morning, a staccato tapping on the windows, and before I went to bed…

The wind rises in icy gusts against skin that is already winter-cracked and nothing else seems to move;…

When you start to pay attention, things like approaching snow and more inclimate weather is hard to deny,…

There was a sharp turn in the wind today, frozen and harsh on brittle skin, even as the…

The entire first world was wooziness and acheyness and dreams of walruses in the far north, and so…

Living in somewhat of a coastal town, much different from the landlocked state of my birth, the comings…

As the deciduous trees began to show the first tentative signs of budding, we took a forest walk…

The starlings sat in my favorite towering tree, the one that looms over the rooftops, calling out meandering…

I have a special affection for the loud birds – the flickers and the starlings, the crows and…

Everything seemed silenced by the return of the archetypical blue-tinted Seattle greyness, the intensely low cloud cover that…

I’m thankful for blue skies and fluffy white clouds- for an appreciation for the minute signs of earth…

Nothing in the thick of winter makes me happier than hearing the clear, sharp chirp of a robin…

As I watched a territorial hummingbird scrittle and flit over the tops of the trees, I noticed for…

Two eagles circled in crystal-clear blue sky, peering down at the river of people below them on a…

A night of neighborhood cats – sniffing the wind as the scents of February draw near, impatiently waiting…

For the first time this year, I noticed the skies getting lighter at night as I wait for…

Sometimes, I list wildly to port and my job takes over everything I see, the windows are shut…

Rain, and more rain, and when the gutters overflowed, more rain, and when the streets flooded, more rain,…

The world continued somewhere outside my door, but I did not show up for it, nor did I…

There’s no denying now that bird life is increasing in activity, very slowly but with the surety of…

We walked through Discovery in the early-afternoon sunshine among the bare-limbed trees, the mossy-trunked trees and the tufted…

A massive, rust haze of a full moon shimmered over us as we walked to dinner, moving bare…

Up on the gutters, the crows were calling for the first time in the new year, remarking on…

From this side of the glass, mainly darkness and the impact of wind, stilness in the cloud cover…

Whenever there is wind, things seem right to me, even the bone-chillingly frigid wind that came along with…

It seemed a heavy day- greyness hung on every tree, low clouds compressed the sky. I am thankful…

There’s the moment when after a long stretch of sunlight, the rains come back and the gutters drip…

The threat of ice turns instead to rain and the overstuffed crows of our neighborhood strut off the…

A brilliant, summer-like sunset hung as a suspended watercolor fire in the sky for what seemed like hours,…

I watched the tuxedo cat next door brave his frigid yard to feast on green shoots that miraculously…

A cloudless, brilliant blue sky and sunlight streaming in from every corner caused the winter berries and the…

As seen from my window, the world outside was chillingly cold, salt spread on the icy walkways, people…

The whole world seemed locked in ice, that kind of cold without the vibrance of wind or the…

We took a walk in the brilliant low-winter sun around towering, sleeping trees in their Arboretum beds and…