Happy Valentine’s Day
What do you associate with Valentine’s Day? Hearts and flowers? A box of chocolates? Valentine’s Day cards? Birds? In the fifth century A.D., Pope Galesius established February 14 as the Feast of Saint Valentine...
Tag: cardinal
Welcome Spring!!
Did you see it? A beautiful sunset on your drive home at 6:30 in the evening.
I smelled it the other day. The scent of rich soil heated by the midday sun.
Surely, you heard it! Red-winged blackbirds, cardinals, even Sandhill...
The Nature of Natural Selection
In my last post – the one with the poem about cardinals – I revealed that while cardinals mate for life, they are not necessarily faithful to their mates. Studies have shown that 9-35% of cardinal hatchlings are not genetically...
A Valentine’s Day poem
When most people think of Valentine’s Day, they think of hearts and flowers, boxes of chocolate, valentine’s day cards, Cupid and his arrow — all that stuff. Some years ago I heard a different Valentine’s...