Back When I Was A Crumudgeon (#SmallWonder Link-Up)

(Photo Source) The seminary’s married housing sprawled in a series of low brick buildings some five miles from campus.  There the newly married, newly empty-nested and a few brave families with young children resided in dilapidated cinder-block two-story...

Praying Mantises (for the Wonders of the World)

A few weeks before the snow started to fly my son found a large, brown Praying Mantis standing on the flecked and peeling paint of our back stairs.She was a good six to eight inches long.The kids captured her by walking her gently into a large see-through salad...

Red Bird, Black Bug

  (this is what I’m listening to as I type, though we live nowhere near a field)   *   *   * At our old house, the cardinals swooped and soared through the back yard, pausing on a tree or fence before flying through the air again like a...

Bugs (BONUS!): Learning to See

This fellow lived on a potted plant on our porch one summer. The husband and four year old have been desperate to catch a Praying Mantis, so much so that I was praying we might find one on our walk after lunch today (my ulterior motive was that I wanted to be the...
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