Woodpecker

As I walked around my apartment complex on the first warm day of the year, I heard something I wasn’t accustomed to. At first, I thought it was just another round of construction, with somebody in a hard yellow hat pounding away at the roof. But all I could see…

I sat and watched a pileated woodpecker build a nest for twenty minutes recently. Minutes I meant to be spending doing other things. These largest of Pacific Northwest woodpeckers can be heard from quite a distance — pecking, I suppose, though that word seems too small for the sound they…

Nature provides >>>>Here is Part one of this article if you missed it. More Woodpecker spirit messages are: Be determined Meditate, breathe, observe, listen Find your focus Laugh way more Celebrate your magic A sign of good things to come Everyone is doing the best they can with what they have come to know Stop…

I have a true story from my childhood to share with you today — just because it’s a cool story: It relates to this quote by rock legend Prince: “Trees are worth more alive than dead.” [source] So when I was a kid we moved a lot. My dad was…

You hear things you otherwise don’t hear. —

Pick a peck of rococo haiku — runner-up… —

Magnificent bird!

Writers — who lives in yours? — Someone asked me how my ideas find their way into my writing. That’s when Woodo piped up and took full credit. He is right, though. He is my muse, my reminder, my chaser, and the one who decides what I write and when I write — for the most part. …

Another bird story as Vermont’s heat wave make the birds reawaken, too. — It’s warm in Vermont. Hot, really. And this has brought out the birds. We don’t see a lot of birds in the winter. Don’t hear them either. So when it gets warm, they come out in droves. First a disclaimer: This is not my woodpecker. Thanks to Patrice Bouchard for…