Looking away from the keyboard

My daughter next door spotted a pheasant out back last week--we're not sure what it was doing in the city.

Hope springs eternal in the hearts of woodpeckers eyeing our home's siding. I went around the garage to chase one away last month and found a chickadee doing the pecking. You learn something new every day.

Every year February gets so shortchanged in days that I think the powers that be have decided to give it a whole year to play with in compensation. It is snowing again. True, the morning snow melted, but still--evening snow too? The elementary school's garden club planting schedule is something like 3 weeks late, maybe 4.