keeper of wild places

Monday, May 31, 2010

5 baby ravens

Hopefully soon i will be able to post a picture.

The sight i saw today was like a dream. everything perfect, the sound, the sun, the rock canyon, 5 BIG baby ravens lined up in their nest of sticks on the side of a cliff.

My computer needs a miracle, and Norman is given God a helping hand.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

i could not resist

First;
we meet a baby Robin today!!
His mama is nowhere around, i hope they find eachother

Don and i drive out to Haines jct. to buy some more seed potatoes for the garden, unfortunately the potato farmer is no more. But.... where do we find some? In the most beautiful dump of the world, right under the St. Elias Range. We always stop there, you never know what you find. I also find some beautiful pieces of plywood . The last few days i have been painting on plywood, in order to go bigger, and too cheap to buy canvas.

And...... we find Bonnie....in her garden

we all have fun watering.

summer

My computer is still giving me problems
and the weather is too gorgeous to be bothered
i do miss blogging though
but i just wanted to let you know
i have not been eaten by the bear :)

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Bear Bliss

Today
i finally! had a totally good day
no sadness lurking underneath
no sorrow no struggles
just a bear lurking in the bushes
papa bear gave me a big smile :-}

Oops, i spoke to soon, as i was typing here, my husband needed help and.... well as he is... what ever... i walked away and continue my post.

Bears, they look so sweet.

No, this bear this morning, he visited us a few times two summers ago. He is totally gorgeous as you see, a beautiful black shiny coat.

An encounter like that is different then with a porcupine, you realize. I wasn't afraid actually, i was in the yard close to the house. But i am totally alert, and have to stop myself from going closer, and always have a very closeby escape plan in mind.

My oh my, this is not a good time for blogging, now Alexander wants my attention, and he does not like it when i am behind the computer, because i pay no attention to what he says.

So toodeloo, i tell you about all the wonderful things of today later.

ps. my happiness is still up and running:)

Sunday, May 23, 2010

porcupine happiness

Okay, i am happy :)
that easy
it's just...

Thanks for all the wonderful comments yesterday,
it helped me a lot!

I guess i feel more content every day, well indeed how can i not, my surroundings are totally beautiful. And best of all the weather is totally gorgeous and there are no bothering insects. (there are two wasps in the house now, but as long as they stay by the window trying to get out, they are okay, well i will eventually let them out, because they might feel not quite in their element)

But what made me totally happy (for at least 11 seconds) was meeting this porcupine.
We surprise each other and are 6 feet away from each other, we both freeze, and where i get my camera, he/she slowly turns its head this way and that to see if i am still behind him. very very slowly he walks off and slowly gets into kind of a porcupine run.

Now that flash of happiness makes me think. Obviously just to be content is not enough for me, for some reason. Yesterday i realized, that in the poem i did not mention how i remember my heart skip. It was the companionship with Jane, where we look into each other eyes, fall into each others arms and know; here we are! we made it! we are a the top, elated.

So all this happiness might have to do for me, with sharing...
Well i know it does....
So i shared it with a porcupine. Darn, he didn't want to stay and he even put out his quills. As i did not expect him to react otherwise, i was fine, totally fine with that.