New Year's Eve 2020

Sjona sings Helvegen

Cicada Chorus

Heavy Late Summer Rain

A sudden front moves in. Swirling leaves fly from the trees. Rain threatens.

The Spirits Arrive on Samhain

April Birdsong

Recorded on the day a flood inundated my house

Flash Flood

Wrens

Many have sung of love a root of bane:
       While to my mind a root of balm it is,
    For love at length breeds love; sufficient bliss
For life and death and rising up again.
Surely when light of Heaven makes all things plain,
    Love will grow plain with all its mysteries;
    Nor shall we need to fetch from over seas
Wisdom or wealth or pleasure safe from pain.
Love in our borders, love within our heart,
    Love all in all, we then shall bide at rest,
    Ended for ever life's unending quest,
         Ended for ever effort, change and fear:
Love all in all; -no more that better part
         Purchased, but at the cost of all things here.

- Christina Rossetti

Listening to Barber's Agnus Dei at Matthew Shepard's Interment

A rare moment without the noise of lawn mowers and leaf blowers. Some traffic, roofing and airplane noise. The birds and insects need to sing louder to hear each other.

Sphecida