The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: nature

  • Wind in the trees seems to quiet the mind.

    Bird Droppings May 28, 2026Wind in the trees seems to quiet the mind. After several days of heavy rain, I am sitting at my computer, thinking back to three years ago, when several storms swept through the area. Just before I went to bed, according to the weather, we would get another storm during the…

  • Is it a paradox that sometimes small can be big?

    Bird Droppings May 25, 2026Is it a paradox that sometimes small can be big? The past few days have been slow for sunrises, with clouds and fog nearly every morning. Somehow, between the clouds and even in the fog, I have found images worthy of a photo. Finding the tiny pieces within our existence is…

  • Is it only a dropped feather?

    Bird Droppings May 12, 2026Is it only a dropped feather? “If we consider the eagle feather with its light and dark colors, we could argue that ‘the dark colors are more beautiful and, therefore, naturally more valuable,’ or vice versa. Regardless of which colors are more beautiful, necessary, or valuable, the truth is the bottom…

  • Seeing and hearing an owl and thinking about happiness

    Bird Droppings May 7, 2026 Seeing and hearing an owl and thinking about happiness “If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that…

  • It is not always all in a name.

    Bird Droppings April 29, 2026It is not always all in a name. On February 3, 2003, I officially started calling, my daily emailing, and journaling Bird Droppings. I went back into my files and pulled up a few old thoughts and ideas. Along with my new name in 2003, I came across some other bits…

  • Sometimes I feel like I am missing a day.

    Bird Droppings April 6, 2026Sometimes I feel like I am missing a day. So often, I speak of coincidences in life. A few evenings back, while helping my wife with some graphics and issues in a class she was teaching, I also thought about a new Bird Droppings. Some ideas had hit me, and I…

  • I was listening to the stillness of a morning, the sunrise, and sometimes we needed a window and not a mirror.

    Bird Droppings March 23, 2026 I was listening to the stillness of a morning, the sunrise, and sometimes we needed a window and not a mirror.  I was sitting alone this morning, as I often do, after driving around hunting for a few photos of the sunrise. Today, it was mostly clear with a few…

  • Flowers are red, green leaves are green, and that’s the way it was meant to be.

    Bird Droppings March 22, 2026Flowers are red, green leaves are green,and that’s the way it was meant to be. It has been over fifty years, actually more, since I found out I was color-blind. I had been in college at West Chester State College for my first year back in 1967. I found that driving…

  • I was looking for deer and a red-tailed hawk when I saw a gray fox.

    Bird Droppings March 13, 2026 I was looking for deer and a red-tailed hawk when I saw a gray fox. As I look at that statement, it isn’t very sensible for many. I go out most mornings to take photos of wildlife, sunrises, and nature. On most mornings, I will see anywhere from two or…

  • To think, or at least trying to this morning, could my brain be foggy, trying to focus  through the fog?

    Bird Droppings March 7, 2026 To think, or at least trying to this morning, could my brain be foggy, trying to focus  through the fog? In the past year or so, I tore my rotator cuff, and my heart went into A-fib. I have had five biopsies and four surgeries for skin cancer, and I…