Precaution

Photo and Commentary ©2025 by Maylan Schurch Sabbath, November 22, 2025 Farm kids like me were taught to drive earlier than city kids. I learned not from a driver’s ed class but from a nervous farmer-father whose already heavy worry-load would become super-crushing...

Outside the Garden

Photo and Commentary ©2025 by Maylan Schurch Friday, November 21, 2025 On a post-breakfast stroll with Shelley this past Tuesday, I saw this little leaf poking through a crack in a board fence. Even though the ravages of autumn have started to cause a bit of...

Generations

Photo ©2025 by Amber Jurgensen Commentary ©2025 Russell Jurgensen Wednesday, November 19, 2025 In this photo a great-grandaughter sticks close to her great-grandpa. No matter where he went, she stayed beside him, followed close behind, or rode on his lap. It made me...

Zoom In or Zoom Out?

Photo and Commentary ©2025 by Darren Milam Wednesday, November 19, 2025 If you examine the first image, what do you see? To me, it appears to be strands of beads of some sort. Regardless of what you came up with, it’s based on this close-up, or a narrow focus....

Black-capped Vireo

Photo ©2009 and Commentary ©2025 by Robert Howson Sunday, November 16, 2025 Conservation seemingly had no part in the vocabulary or thinking of most 19th century Americans. Almost limitless numbers of Passenger Pigeons were reduced to zero. Carolina Parakeets met with...