Poppy's Perspective

It was a great weekend. We planted about 75 trees: Pecans, paw paws, and possum haw. We planted to the music of spring peepers and rushing water, as the creek is still up. At one point I crawled up into one of our cave springs to get a cup of water for a newly planted paw paw and discovered a nice sized grotto salamander! And at another point while planting a possum haw I looked up to see two circling bald eagles.
Yesterday in an effort to correct a developing erosion problem near our barn we built a new fence to keep the goats off. The fence was built by lunch and by evening chore time I was being greeted by an Eastern Phoebe who was perched on the new wire singing his name to the heavens. It was fabulous to see him framed out in the open so happily.
This evening while moving the goats to a new pasture at dusk just as the Orion and the Pleiades were becoming visible I was admiring a sliver moon like a cup holding its darker two-third. There was still a red glow in the West from the sun as well as the glow of a distant forest fire on the old elk ranch. With the smell of smoke in the air the goat kids were crying from being separated, the spring peepers were at their prime volume, the great horned owl that lives up Lisa's hollow was making himself known, and a flock of geese flew overhead honking a spring serenade. It was a stimulus overload and it felt awesome!
For dinner tonight we had canned mashed potatoes and green beans from last year's garden and we cooked goat steaks over a fire. After dinner and chores Alisen, Huxley and I walked up to the top of the pond pasture to watch the fire on the elk ranch, enjoy the magnificent sky of stars, and feel the love of family.
Did I already say it has been a great weekend?