Sounds in the woods...

Early one morning a few days ago, we were woken by a strange barking sound in the woods across the way... gradually we realised it was a deer calling out.

They are delicate creatures, shy and always on the alert and we can see them feeding by the roads early in the morning.  We have to on the lookout though because every now and then they dash into the road.

Its a fabulous part of living here, to be so close to the stories of the natural world... yesterday I spotted a woodchuck mooching about in the underbrush beside the road to Lansing...
Nicholas

 Taughannock Falls State Park is one of many state parks with beautiful waterfalls and trails and overlooks that are within 10 minutes drive of our cottage.

Waterfalls have always attracted me, from the grandeur of Niagara to the smallest, gentle tumbling of a creek over a collection of river rocks. When water moves over the edge of a rocky surface, the energy released is incredible and at times almost overwhelming...

Life is like this too. At some moment in each of our lives, there is an inevitable end of the solid rock as we know it, we continue on...but what was once beneath us is no longer there. Our once contained selves, burst forth, unfettered, unformed, no longer defined by the shores we once travelled.

I am taking the plunge, on a whole lot of levels...

Judy