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New Year

1/4/2023

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I'm celebrating the New Year with a sweet calendar created by Tessa who lives and paints in Wales.

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Resolutions?
​Pretty much a continuation of every year:
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Yoga Plant Lady by Christa @ Wild Optimist
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December snow

12/5/2022

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Um, OK--I get that the weather is weird, but snow already?
​It is definitely winter here in Seattle!
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November=wet & Cold

10/31/2022

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A Year Unfolding-Angela Harding

Overnight, literally; no slow transition for the Pacific NW this year; we went straight from smokey, stagnant, 80 F weather, on top of a drought--to an inch of rain overnight, blustery winds, blue skies, and a backyard full of hungry birds.
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So happy for sweater weather, saunas, and sitting by the hearth with hot drinks.

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Sometimes

7/24/2022

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another from Suellen Saidee Cook ​
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People...

4/8/2022

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 bird & bee from Katie Daisy's With Love, Adventure, and Wildflowers Notes
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I have had this quote pinned to my bulletin board for over 20 years...and it has never seemed truer.
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Keepers of the Light

1/20/2022

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I'm still here! Heading into 2022...
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These images by Suellen Saidee Cook capture the spirit.
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MidWinter Musings

12/21/2021

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Midwinter finds Seattle cold, dark, and wet...but with lovely chilly sunshine breaks in the weather that draw us outside; we've been meeting up with a gorgeous barred owl in the arboretum and our neighborhood Cooper's Hawk has been gracing our backyard often these last few days. 
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Missing the snow, but we are keeping our spirits bright with saunas, candlelight, and eggnog!
Sláinte friends~
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Feathers 4 Me

9/3/2021

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Crow, Cooper's hawk, and Stellar Jay feathers, left for me near our bird baths :^)
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Party animals-my favorite coffee cup by Vicki Sawyer 
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Mother's Day 2021

5/9/2021

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Joyful * Playful * Curious

Queen of the Sea & Otter Saint by Christina Miller
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One nice thing about Starlings=murmuration

4/28/2021

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Chunky and noisy,
but with stars in their black feathers,
they spring from the telephone wire
and instantly

they are acrobats
in the freezing wind.
And now, in the theater of air,
they swing over buildings,

dipping and rising;
they float like one stippled star
that opens,
becomes for a moment fragmented,

then closes again;
and you watch
and you try
but you simply can’t imagine

how they do it
with no articulated instruction, no pause,
only the silent confirmation
that they are this notable thing,

this wheel of many parts, that can rise and spin
over and over again,
full of gorgeous life.

Ah, world, what lessons you prepare for us,
even in the leafless winter,
even in the ashy city.
I am thinking now
of grief, and of getting past it;


I feel my boots
trying to leave the ground,
I feel my heart
pumping hard. I want

to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.


“Starlings in Winter” by Mary Oliver, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
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    Tracey Byrne~

    I taught K-12 students from north of the Arctic Circle to the Puget Sound Ecoregion, garnering  40 years of experience as a classroom teacher, learning mentor, and private tutor. 

    I spent most of the 1980s and 90s in Alaska flying airplanes, floating wild rivers, winter camping, teaching, parenting, and living off the grid. 

    Here in Seattle, I am an advocate for environmental stewardship, place-based education, and outdoor play. I share my enthusiasm for birds, bugs, and backyards and have been a featured writer and photographer for Pacific Horticulture. 
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