A Snow Day

Dear Friends,

A happy day to you! We are experiencing our first REAL snow day here in Missouri~ The "marshmallow world" kind of snow day, that calls the birds to the feeders, and us to our favorite chairs.

We could never tire of watching the birds that visit our yard:

Female Cardinal

Male Cardinal

 

Male Cardinal and Dark-sided Junco

Male Cardinal and Carolina Wren (Who have become our new favorite cute birds, along with tufted titmice!) ~

 

(Birds love the mixture of peanut butter and cornmeal that we smeared on the tree out back.)

We have been learning the names of the new plants that grow nearby, like Winter Creeper Vine~

And finding special rocks that have faces in them (We see a woman nose to nose with a mountain goat)~

And finding ultra-modern birds' nests with Ziploc liners (click image to see better)!

What fun discoveries have you made today?

Love,

Marqueta

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 Snowflakes

Out of the bosom of the Air
    Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
    Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
          Silent, and soft, and slow
          Descends the snow.

Even as our cloudy fancies take
    Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
    In the white countenance confession
          The troubled sky reveals
          The grief it feels.

This is the poem of the air,
    Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
This is the secret of despair,
    Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
          Now whispered and revealed
          To wood and field.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow