Juvenile Northern Flicker

Today there were four, yes, four juvenile northern flicker (woodpeckers) on my deck. One of them decided it needed a bath.

Another Monday Moment

Only in Western Washington . . . would my students feel the need to wear their coats over their heads, while outside, in order to read their books, without having the sunshine glare in their faces. I laughed, teased, took pictures and posted it on my blog and yet, I agree with them whole heartedly!

A Monday Moment

I have been using mechanical pencils for many years.

They are very convenient, never need sharpening, and are fairly cheep.

Since going back to school have been spending more and more time on my computer, using my mechanical pencils and a computer mouse.

I have now discovered a down fall to the combination of mechanical pencil lead and a computer mouse.When one does not know that a small piece of lead has broken off their pencil and become trapped under said computer mouse, this is the rather artistic result:

In search of spring

As I try to decide between spring planting or continued winter hybernation, I went onto my deck to look for some signs, any sign, of spring. There are three days until April 1 and yet as I photographed spring, it was snowing! Arrrgh . . . . .

A bud on a "squirrel" tree

Small Blue Bells

More blue bells and lupine