A Friday ritual.
A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week.
A simple, special, extraordinary moment.
A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
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Flying Through Summer
I’m flying through summer sort of like this Purple Martin. 
It might not be prudent to fly for too long without looking where you are headed but when there is so much going on around you how do you even have time to look ahead to the next week?
Tonight was the first night in the 16 days the kids have been off school that I’ve had a breather to look around and start picking up the house… and the garage… and the yard… and the trucks…
It was like an archaeological dig.
On top of the couch was the bag of dress clothes I wore to the funeral of a family friend this morning. Hiding under that was the miscellaneous items the kids dropped on their way in the door from the summer solstice party we were at yesterday. The garage was heaped with the camping things from earlier in the week. And under it all was a thick layer of capoeira debris from a solid week of workshops and events. Drum making materials mixed with extra instruments on the mantel, cord dying equipment still on the table, boxes of un-sold shirts by the stove and stinky workout clothes in all the corners. Feed for the new goslings can be found under the camping equipment in the garage. And if you dig deep enough in the truck you can still find the remains of the tools we brought north to build bunk beds at the family cabin. Buried beneath it all on the table was a mountain of papers the girls brought home on the last day of school.
The fridge is mostly devoid of food and the laundry, clean and dirty, is piled high. But the good times have been plentiful and now I’ll have some time to work on the mess we left in our wake…
… but first I have two weddings to celebrate…
Looking For Us?
Don’t worry, we haven’t gone anywhere!
The geese are still growing, the kids are still cute, the dogs are still crazy and I’m still writing blog posts.
Unfortunately, at the moment, all those blog posts are piled up in my head like an untidy log jam but once they make it to the screen you’ll have new reading for a month!
If you are wondering what’s happening around here during these long summer days you can still find us fairly regularly over on Instagram. ( https://www.instagram.com/behindthewillows )
This Moment – Gosling Love
A Friday ritual.
A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week.
A simple, special, extraordinary moment.
A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
Caged!
Ducklings, goslings and children all move.
A lot.
But, if you build a 20 duckling, 2 gosling, 3 kid cage, you can photograph them all at the same time!
Remarkably even when you stick these 25 creatures in one small cage, you still get a very good sense of all their individual personalities.
Ivy, is seriously working on socializing the ducklings, she is busy, and can not smile for the camera.
Clara is willing to grin for the camera but will not stop doing what she had been doing, in this case plucking bits of greenery from the floor of the cage to hand feed to the birds.
Jane, of course, abandons all pretense that she was ever doing anything else to make silly faces at the camera.
Meanwhile, the ducklings, observed only by Ivy, are in a slight panic. But only a slight panic, because there is also water in their midst and, as all ducklings know, all water needs to be thrown on the ground immediately.
The goslings are boldly investigating. We are new to geese, but so far bold investigation seems to be their thing!
And, at the rate all 25 of them are growing, this is likely to be the only picture I ever get of them all together.
Behind the Willows 