Holiday and Christmas greetings

. . . as we celebrate the return of the light during the pandemic.
Reed and I escaped to the Southwest to watch the Sandhill cranes and Snow Geese in their winter homes along the Rio Grande in and around Bosque del Apache. We made our plans 6 months ago and vaccinated and boosted we thought being outside was a safe way to spend the holidays. Then came Omicron…

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Journal, Travel Journal, Travel

Seeking hope

You can’t miss the anniversary discussions about a year of COVID: the lockdown, the losses, the old life still yearned for, but the new routines becoming more familiar.
This week, both COVID immunized, Reed and I took a trip to watch an ancient spring event in northern Indiana: the migration of the Sandhill cranes toward their nesting sites in Wisconsin, Minnesota and further north. We were seeking a change of pace and the magic of taping into nature’s majesty…

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