Sonja Says

This has been quite a twelve-hour period starting with the lunar eclipse last evening.  We were able to enjoy that spectacle for a limited time as the sky clouded over about an hour into it.  Should have guessed that the clouds were bringing three more inches of snow.  Oh well, winter’s got to end sometime.

A little finch had a collision with our dining room window this afternoon.  He was just lying on the ground on his back, so Katie went out and picked him up, and moved him under a bush.  He has flown away now, so he’s alright.  Here he is:

It’s definitely coming.  Yesterday on a trip to GJ with Katie, we saw numerous prairie dogs who had drilled their way up through snow and ice seeking the sun.  The best sight was seeing the heron we’ve not seen for several years in an estuary of the Colorado River.  There it was standing tall.  Guess we should give it a name. 

Hi!

I have just a few things to say today.  One, I am very excited to announce that my little Gasteria liliputana is going to bloom!  This will be the first time it has bloomed for me, and I will keep you all posted on its progress.  Here it is today (Feb. 16, 2008):

The next thing I wanted to tell about is a talk given at the High School about the Long Walk which took the Navajo from their sacred land in the Four Corners area of Utah to Bosque Redondo, NM.   What I found most interesting is the speaker’s saying the Navajo do not consider themselves victims, but saw this as a learning experience.  The importance of education was stressed in order for the people to be able to deal with whites.  This was a great lecture and I was happy to have gone.

 On another note, our beautiful white-eyebrowed Steller’s Jay seems to have disappeared.  Perhaps he’s gone to find a mate, which means that next year we could possibly have a pair of visitors for the winter.