The List from the Front of My Journal

This is the time for New Year’s Resolutions, but I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions. Too many big ideas for big changes, too little follow-through. So I’m not adding anything new to the list I already have written in the front of my journal. But I will do a review as an end of [...]

In the Highest Field

Snow Capped Seed Heads

I think continually of those who were truly great Who from the womb, Remembered the soul’s history Through corridors of light where the hours are suns, Endless singing Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips still touched with fire Should tell the spirit Clothed from head to foot in song [...]

Three Leaves

December Fog

Madison has already had 35 inches of snowfall, and until today most of it was on the ground. Then a warm front moved in and a heavy fog settled on everything. Now there are bare patches of muddy earth peeking from the patches of snow.  But it made for a fun afternoon [...]

Picnic, Anyone?

Devil's Lake State Park

This is the very popular picnic area at Devil’s Lake State Park near Baraboo, Wisconsin. Today there are plenty of picnic tables available with a great view of the lake. These tables are usually at a premium. If you want to picnic here in July or August, you must set [...]

Mailbox, Suspended in Winter

Rural Mail

This mailbox photo may become one in a series of photographs – the kind of series where one takes the same shot every season of the year.

We were driving home from a nature break at Devil’s Lake State Park near Baraboo, Wisconsin, when I saw the very mailbox I captured this [...]

Credo at Christmas

Capitol in Lights

“At Christmas time I believe the things that children do:

I believe with English children that holly placed in windows will protect our homes from evil. I believe with Swiss children that the touch of edelweiss will charm a person with love. I believe with Italian children that La Befana is [...]