When I waked this morning, I noticed light seeping around the edges of my window shades. Interesting, beautiful, soft, dawn light.

The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker eats fruit and insects. He also drills tap holes in the trunks of trees in horizontal rows to find sap. When when he finds it, the woodpecker drills horizontal rows to get more. The black and white bird returns repeatedly to a good tree and drinks from those holes and drill new ones. Titmice, nuthatches, and hummingbirds also come harvest sap... Continue Reading →

Afternoon light on a winter's day is soft and mellow.  Its white turns cream colored. Its yellows look blue-grey.It is still. You can feel it breathe.The shadows lengthen and suddenly the light is gone.