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Oregon bird haiku

This is the first of two posts about this year’s birding trip to Central Oregon (2024). A different take In late May, Craig and I spent a delightful few days birding in Central Oregon with cousins Ron and Linda — our annual trip. We began at the Summer Lake Wildlife…

The Dormouse, literary and culinary

July 16, 2021 a good book around the table rhymes the birds and the trees

When I was a very little girl, my mother often read to me from A.A. Milne’s books of rhymes for children: When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six. Less familiar to most than Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories, these books are filled with humorous and whimsical and sometimes lyrical…

Ring in the New Year!

January 8, 2021 a good book musical notes rhymes

Happy 2021! May this new year bless us with hope and health, truth and light and peace. I have often heard the expression “to ring in the New Year” without giving much thought to what it meant — aside from churches ringing their bells on New Year’s Eve. But this…

Great-Granddaddy Wise

August 17, 2018 a good book family matters rhymes

One of my most prized possessions is a book of poetry written by my great-grandfather — my mother’s mother’s father. His first name was Stidger, but I don’t know whether anyone actually used it. Mom and her sisters called him “Granddaddy Wise” (Wise was his last name), and they adored…