Sparrow Tree Journal

This morning I attempted to sleep in, but my body is so accustomed to my workday wakeup time of 5:15am that it's really not possible to ...

It's subtle, for the most part. A shift in the angle of light in the afternoons, slightly later sunrises. The green of the vegetation ou...

It's really hot out today. Dangerously hot, to be precise. The heat index has been up around 107 degrees every day for a week. Monday ni...

This morning I went to a see a friend who lives out in the country. It's a pretty highway and I often want to stop and take pictures on ...

  Leaves fall early in the autumn wind. Butterflies are already yellow with August A pair flies over the grass of the West garden. Seeing th...

I'm down to my last four days of summer vacation. When my husband was leaving for work this morning he said, "Better make 'em ...

August 18th and 19th Down the Long Hill "Sunrise comes later, now, and dusk creeps over the hills earlier in the evening. Reck...

I forget how much I love sitting outside on summer afternoons. It's been so hot that staying in the house all day long can get to be a b...

What a soggy, gray, depressing month August has been. I'm ready to see the end of it. We've had record rain this summer, and I bla...

After days and days of overcast skies and rain, the sun is finally shining! Not only that, but the weather is perfect, absolutely perfect. I...

The last couple of weeks have been busy for me. I have had doctor and dentist appointments, extra projects at work that needed attention, an...