Birdhouse Funnery

Since I'm still recovering from a cold 

and it's 0 degrees outside this morning, 

my camera is stowed away

and I'm forced to pull from my archives for a photograph.

I thought about posting something from a warmer season, then decided

to go with this photo I took last winter outside our favorite

breakfast spot, the Meadow Mountain Cafe in

Allenspark, Co.

In keeping with my 2013 theme of "Discovery", 

I researched the history of birdhouses. 

According to eHow.com:

"In America, Native Americans built simple birdhouses out of birch bark and hollowed out gourds. They were designed to not only shelter the birds from storms, but also to help the birds breed and multiply. The Native Americans passed this tradition on to the English and German immigrants."

(Read more: The History of the Birdhouse | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/facts_7526986_history-birdhouse.html#ixzz2HsB3SVaY)

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Winter Wardrobe

Welcome gentle snow,

soft and white.

You've dressed the pines for winter.

Sharing today with

:

Seeing Past the Snow

“All Heaven and Earth 

Flowered white obliterate... 

Snow...unceasing snow” 

-- Hashin, Japanese Haiku: Two Hundred Twenty Examples of Seventeen-Syllable Poems

“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
-- Lorraine Hansberry

"There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence."
-- Queen Mary

“Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is the end of it”
-- American Proverb

I dream of Lilacs in bloom again.

"In my mind, clematis climbs,
And morning glories do entwine.
Woodland phlox and scarlet pinks,
Replace the frost, if I just blink.
My inner eye sees past the snow.
And in my mind, my garden grows."
-  Cynthia Adams, From Winter Garden.
   First published in Birds and Blooms magazine, Dec/Jan 2003

Nancy

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