#SOL17 - Seventeen of Thirty-One And Poetry Friday

Number seventeen of thirty-one, over halfway through the month of the Two Writing Teachers March Challenge.

And today, celebrate St. Patrick's Day and Poetry Friday with Robyn Hood Black at her blog, Life On The Deckle Edge! She's brought a bit of the green in her poetry for us! Thanks, Robyn!

     I think this might be the final time for my "snowy" Poetry Friday button. I know that many of you have had too much snow to find a shamrock, but here in Colorado, except in the mountains, it's over 70 degrees and I've had to begin watering. I'm not bragging. We really could use a lot of that snow! 

Read this quote carefully. I believe it holds some hope for us in this chaotic political year: 

          "In Ireland, the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs."  
Sir John Pentland Mahaffy.

taken by Linda Baie

          I wrote about crows and an old picture book about them last week, then starting searching for other pieces about them. I even tried to connect this somehow to St. Patrick's Day, but I discovered that Ireland's bird is the gyrfalcon, NOT a crow. Here is a poem I wrote a few years ago sitting at our old home with my husband, looking out. Our home backed onto a park, and we were blessed with many birds, among them, crows.  

 Sharing Breakfast

A pair of crows-

  visitors each morning-

  startle when we open the door,

  fly away in tandem,

  a steadfast couple.

  They soon return to gather

  the breakfast peanuts

  and settle at the birdbath.

  Each holds a peanut,

  dipping, cracking.

  During the munching, their

  husky calls reach our own breakfast table.

  Here are my husband and myself,

  reading news bits to each other,

  chomping on granola and blueberries.

               Linda Baie ©All Rights Reserved

#SOL16 - 17/31 Special Family Time

SOLC #17/31 

      I'm slicing with the Two Writing Teachers community for Day Seventeen of Thirty-One of the Slice of Life Challenge in March.  Thank you Stacey, Tara, Anna, Betsy, Dana, Kathleen, Beth, and Deb.  
        It's been both a whirl of a week and a pleasure too. My son and daughter-in-law, and sweet Bernese Mountain Dog Truman have been here since Monday. Grandson Carter is with his high school band at Disney World for spring break. I miss him, but he is having a great time.

       Tuesday and Wednesday were filled with shopping and conversation, eating and conversation, so much fun. Ingrid and Imogene got to come after school until their parents Sarah and Dave joined us for dinner, hence the pictures. Uncle Nathan and Ingrid share a snack while Aunt Barb and Imogene are a conversation with the house animals. Truman stays near, of course, in on the action as well as he can be.

        Everyone but me is skiing today, a final time together before these visitors return home. Big snow has been falling in the mountains! I'm off to the book store! 

                                                         

For always:  "Having a place to go - is a home. Having someone to love - is a family. Having both - is a blessing."

                                                                                                                 Donna Hedges

For Today:                                   HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

         "May the blessings of each day be the blessings you need most.

SOLC # 17/31 - Green Scene

                Also blogging with my students at Linda & Jonathan's Class Blog

Day Seventeen, sliding downward, of the Two Writing Teachers Slice of Life Challenge.  Tweet at #SOL15

                Thanks to Tara, Dana, Anna, Betsy, Beth and Stacey for hosting!

Well, it is St. Patrick's Day, and here are my favorite green things, and the picture that inspired me. I was looking for another picture with a key word that has nothing to do with this picture, but saw this, and decided to celebrate green. We don't have a green river in Denver, but we do have the second largest St. Pat's Parade in the US.  

And no, I'm not Irish. Both sides of my family came straight from England a long time ago. But I do like Irish writers, Irish blessings, and the color green. Top o' the morning to ye! 

May you always have walls for the winds,

a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire,

laughter to cheer you, those you love near you,

and all your heart might desire.