Claudia Schmidt

I am back from my wonderful trip to Minnesota and Wisconsin. It was my first batch of concerts in a couple months, and there is something about the rhythm I find when I am performing several days in a row, just like any other activity where you can just jump in. I love the job and the work of performance. 5 days in a row, solo, a duo with my friend Ann Reed, the magical Bird Show. .my brain and heart are doing zoomies!

But I found that many plants were already snatched up from my favorite nurseries when I…

Since my last post, hummers are back, first a couple males, now the females. Today I watched a tiny hummer fly to the great Grandmother Oak, and then a moment later a giant pileated woodpecker made a landing. Tonight I am hearing wood thrush song, which warms my heart. Every day, if I just take time, something new for my ears, my eyes, my heart!

The hummingbird feeder is hung and filled, awaiting the return of those wonderful creatures. It may be a few days, a week, but we are there with the siren call of RED and the nectar within. It is a small ritual in the maelstrom of our current world, but we will do our part to make our fellow creatures as comfortable as possible while some go tromping over the planet with blatant disregard for their fellow not human inhabitants.