bring on the butterflies

A couple days ago, I thought I saw something fluttering about in our woods.

evidence!

Eastern Comma
4.9.26

Bring on the butterflies!!!

finished book ~ unfinished thoughts

After taking an extended break from reading books, I finally finished reading Sacred Spaces (SS). It was an easy read, full of good self-help type of information. Cover-to-cover. Yes it is geared towards interacting with horses, but applicable to all of types of thoughtful interactions.

The last chapter "Connecting all the Pieces" is helpful to tie concepts presented throughout the book, and where to find the building blocks. Some are still hard (for me) to grasp. I have tried many times to attempt the pre-visualization thing. Our horses just look at me confused, like "what are you doing?" or more like "why are you doing that?". Apparently some type of thought is being shared. Perhaps my head is just too busy. Either way, it is an interesting way to interact.

General concepts covered in SS mirror much of what is being shared through my rekindled yoga practice. Key word practice.

What can I say, The Art of Pause is everything.

The Epilogue touched home. As I continually process love, loss and life in general. The list of suggestions are really (really) good ones to revisit over-and-over, and strive to live by. I am thankful to have this book to support my horse interactions and unfinished thoughts.

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"Each being on this earth, and earth itself, is made up of energy...energy can neither be created or destroyed. It can only change form."

3.31.26

land of wonders ~ march 2026 2/2

Marching, or in Tanks case jumping, through the second half the month:

March 18 (Remi waaay ahead)

Tanks shadows!

March 19

enjoying late season snow

I was so surprised to find another isolated heart (below)!! Same path. I had stopped to snap a photo of Tank and almost stepped on the heart with my snowshoes. If I had, it would have become my broken heart.

no clue what formed this almost perfectly shaped heart (not me)

yes you blondee, get down

March 20 sunset

mother nature took a big pine down
(13 secs)

March 22 cloudy layered sunset

taking 3 dogs for a walk
March 23

(Tank, Remi and Leo the cat-dog)



everything smells better together

Tank is always watching out for me



Harmony enjoying bed and breakfast
March 24

Our round bales easily fall apart and are so messy! Brad said "we will never do round bales again". Don't know until you try.

catkins caught my eye

Google says they are from a Hazelnut. Hmm. Maybe?



Tank & Remi
March 25

naturalized grape hyacinths
March 26



calm grazing on emerging grass
March 27



are you coming?




the dogs sniff a lot in the disturbed area

Nemo & Cierra under cover

(no clue why photos are so much darker in blogger)



Tank & Rem-Rem
March 30

It is unusual for me to have all three big dogs together these days.

Remi taking a break

She will be 10 at the end of May. Bernese Mountain dogs life expectancy is 6-8 yrs. She is a medium sized Berny and doing good. Country life suits her well. She loves the woods, the barn and me.

Tank & Remi on barn watch (Leo photo bomb)
March 30

More scratches please (Hope)
March 31

Koda and friends walking
(5 secs)



Tank takes his horse job seriously

This concludes a snapshot of March happenings.

April should bring rain showers, with less weather swings. My early daffodils are about to open and many perennials are poking through the ground. It won't be long and active gardening season will take over! Unfortunately, so will the dreaded flying biters. 

Taking the good with the bad, makes us appreciate the good even more.

land of wonders ~ march 2026 1/2

Let us March into the first half of the month...

March 1 (Tank & Jameson)

X marks the spot

3.2.26


one of my favorite view, coming out of our woods
3.4.26



3.5.26


Cierra

3.6.26

didn't even notice it was raining ;)

um, this tree is in our way

3.7.26



playing pick up sticks




plueeese throw this one (or pole vault!)

good morning moon 3.7.26 (7:37am)




a heart at my feet
3.8.26

Our son had his excavator doing some working at our place. He took down a huge two trunk split tree that was hung up on others. Along with a couple other big tree's waiting to fall on my head. It was so fascinating to watch the action!! He cracked them like toothpicks. My son is a bad ass! I left our woods with a whole new appreciation of his occupation of choice.

safe to walk the Y path again

burning my butterfly garden
(still 3.8.26)

Harmony & Hope and Cierra & Nemo operate as a herd, with fences

3.8.26
a day to remember

amazing evening sky morphing



 two eagles soaring over our place
3.9.26

investigating the changes
3.10.26

calm to the north
3.12.26

fast moving clouds to the south

(Cierra and Nemo)



Tank found our missing rain spout
3.14.26



 auto-paws

waiting to see which direction we are taking

3.14.26

Thanks for scrolling along! I am back to splitting land of wonder posts, even with a small fraction of photos and video's shared *^* No kidding!!