The wonders of nature are sometimes just outside your window...
Today it was such a joy to be reminded of important things in my life: staying home with my boys, living out in the country and homeschooling them. I’ve learned a lot through their eyes . . .
This morning right before they got started with Math my youngest was looking out the front window by his desk and said – “Mom, look at this owl”. A brief Science lesson entailed checking out his “Owl”. Which turned out to be a gorgeous hawk sitting on an upturned raised garden bed frame just outside the living room window.
Now, if he/she was in the back yard we would have had to really jump into loud action and get it away from the chickens . . . but here in the front we were able to observe his great beauty and grand stature. He turned his head completely around to look back at us. Probably thought those things in the shiny cage were rather strange. When the boys were very small we went to Wild Wednesdays in Kenton County and learned about these hawks but we had never seen one close up in our own yard before.
My camera didn’t do justice to him and the glare from the window makes it worse, but we’ve included a picture of our lovely visitor for you to enjoy too -
Marilyn, the Goat Woman