Here is Melvin standing between his beloved grandfather, Gustav Adolphson, who came from Gothenburg and his aunt Bertha, Anna and Gustav's only daughter.

My great-grandmother, Anna, emigrated from Sweden in 1888 and settled in Superior, Wisconsin. Here she is in her garden in the 1920s. Her grandson, Melvin, gave me this photograph.

Our new dog: Lad

Bluebirds

The bluebirds at the GPC native plant garden were busy feeding their young on Sunday morning, May 10. 

I saw a tree full of Ibises on the Georgia coast

attempts at drawing animals

American Woodcock

This woodcock must have been migrating north--in the middle of January--to the Great Lakes or shores of New England. Or was it just lost in the big city? It flew into a skyscraper in downtown Atlanta and I found it dead on the sidewalk.

The Wood duck flew into a skyscraper and broke his neck. He is the most colorful of American ducks and belongs along the woodland streams in the South, not on the pavement. 

Here is a sparrow who lost his life mid-flight downtown. 

I bury the birds I've found on the sidewalk in the back yard, but my friend Art says I should build an altar and burn them to let them re-enter their true element. 

I found this little warbler on the sidewalk downtown. Birds fly into skyscrapers and their short lives are cut even shorter. I wonder who they are and where they are going. 

Recent photos

November 5, 2008, the morning after Obama's victory, I went to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and took this picture of two men praying--paying tribute to Dr. King. 

Here is Desmond, who stayed with us over Christmas, posing with the scarf I finally finished.