Northview Diary

A gallon jar sits on a dresser. Cool, clear, green, a little dusty, a flaw here and there But lovely in its way. It's filled wi...

This is NOT April. April is a month  of new baby birds, fresh bright flowers, and balmy spring breezes. At least in theory. However...

That broke the collective lock down backs seem to have been boat launches and golf courses. It appeared to me all through this that o...

Not to be an alarmist or anything .... I hate to spread possibly unnecessary concerns.  However, I've been getting a teeny tiny ...

Came downstairs to a robin quartet , all caroling in unison. Shadows laced the walls around me, reflecting thoughts of super moons and...

The dance of the sugarplum......gulls Things are different. I've watched with horror the news stories of people willfully attempt...

Appomattox  Court House We shoulda been headed for the Outer Banks this weekend for a week of Civil War battlefields, beaches, and bea...

Even though it is only March our local farmers are on the land. They are fertilizing, fitting ground, getting everything ready to plant, ...

Sunup at Schoharie Crossing Nobody here but us and the birds They say it equals staying alive. We have to go to the stores and mail ou...

Ring-billed Gull I try. I really do . I understand just how fortunate I am.....to be in reasonable if not great health, to be ambulat...

Hertrude, there's something wrong with the water! I can't swim, can you? I dunno, Greathcliff, it looks alright, but it...

Is not abnormal for us . We mostly only see family and the people we meet while shopping for food and other necessities. Bi...

Pick up the phone. Make that keyboard sing. Call your mother. Chat with a friend on Facebook. Video conference with friends and l...

I read this pretty much every day and prop myself up with it quite often. Not my usual, but it is what it is. “I know how to be abased...

A young friend shared this fun draw a bird thing and so I did And babysitting. The girls are working all the hours they can while the g...

Nope. Not. Just too gloomy and doomy today to bother . I am one of those silly SAD people and it is snowy (!) and grey and unpleasan...