Perpetrators of Darkness

I delighted to hear the “lumberjack” had discovered that four red oaks, a hackberry, a cherry, and a birch tree had survived!  They still had their amor on or they surely would have been destroyed by the bullies.

Peering though Fog by Vina Mogg

I could not see two feet beyond its heavy curtain. In the distance a foghorn bellowed, “I am here” to boats, creatures, people displaced by limited vision. From the shoreline I watched a family of seals surface a few feet short of the heavy curtain.

Find Your Own Place

One female oriole ventured to an empty place, but before she could even get her beak into the tasty purple jelly, one male bird chided loudly in bird language, “Find your own place!”  Which she did – in the nearby pine tree.