Wishing and Hoping: Blue-headed Vireo (Sound!)

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ~ Thomas A. Edison

Gorgeous Spring Locals

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Barred Owl: One Little Victory

“Celebrate the moment | As it turns into one more | Another chance at victory | Another chance to score” ~ Rush, “One Little Victory”

Neo-tropic Migrants, State Testing, and Camp Banshees

A flashback from spring migration
two years back. Not much has changed!

Colorado Springs — A Break from the Chaos

This will serve as a photo post to our fabulous trip.  The Top Ten Teaser has already seen two weeks in between.

First, the annual school fundraiser — for which I’m in charge of the outdoor carnival portion — is in full planning mode.  Combine that with the not-so-timely “Spring Marathon” in my own yard, and sprinkle in an impending house remodel which requires moving into an apartment…I just want to throw my hands up in the air and wave the white flag.    There’s also that pesky thing call eating and sleeping that I have to shoe-horn in somewhere in all that mess.