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A Double Blessing in the April Snow

Posted by Barbara Techel

A Double Blessing in the April Snow

I was going to title this post “A Blessing in the April Snow” until I pulled this photo up on my computer I took this morning.

I was excited to see a cardinal at my feeder and so pretty he looks in the snow, even though I wish we weren’t having snow.

But he made me smile. And then I realized looking at the photo that I caught in the lens a bird in flight to the feeder. It looks as if the cardinal is saying, come on in and get some grub!

A double blessing on this snowy day in April!

And the bird action today is remarkable — which I guess is a triple blessing, I should add. Junco’s,  cardinals, woodpeckers, sparrows and yellow finches are busy flitting about on our deck and on the feeders.

No doubt filling up to stay warm for this brief return of winter to Wisconsin in spring.

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Fairy Carpenters in the Woods

Posted by Barbara Techel

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Friday afternoon I walked in the woods with Kylie and Gidget and don’t recall seeing this new birdhouse — in fact, there were two of them that I saw today when we were meandering the paths once again.

I wondered how I could have missed them. But perhaps I didn’t. Maybe it was Saturday that the fairy carpenters pulled up in their little red pick up trucks, set up their tiny table saws, pulled out their hammers and nails, and got down to work. I bet their teeny hard hats were adorable.

It must have taken quite a few of them to hoist this birdhouse up, and what was likely giant to them, to attach it to the tree.

But then again, you know… fairies are magical and they can do most anything.

I imagine afterwards they sat in a row on a nearby log, cracked open a beer, and sat back and took great pride in their beautiful efforts in building new homes for their bird friends.

Maybe, just maybe, next time I’ll see them in action!

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Thankful Heart Bursts

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Thankful Heart Bursts

Meditation comes in many different forms. Two that I enjoy are sitting with my eyes closed, listening to soft instrumental music, and the other is a walking meditation in a small wooded area near my home.

Opening my eyes after a 15-minute meditation this morning, sitting in my over-sized peach wicker chair in my writing cottage, I sat a bit longer.

My eyes drifted most willingly to the world of an action packed flurry of little legs hopping here and there, and wings flapping about outside my window– watching my winged bird friends partake in the gift of the feast I blessed them with earlier this week.

Once again, I’m reminded…it is the simplest things I give thanks for that bring bursts of joy to my heart each day.

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