Happy June!
- Jen
- 2 days ago
- 3 min read
“June is a love letter written by nature” ~ unknown |
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One table ~ so many ways to customize it!
A few examples of how color can change the whole look of a piece:
from warm red/brown oak
to light birch with a white painted base and rounded corners
to a dark, almost black pine with a black painted base
to an all lightly stained pine
or a dark, rich brown oak.
All beautiful, all similar but all unique.
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A Thousand New Lives
A most darling wild cottontail bunny has taken up residency in our yard, I find I have become enchanted with him, he makes me forget my work and I intently watch his adorable little self, contentedly eating the white clover that grows in the side yard. I am need of constant reminder that he is wild and that I have to refrain from naming or feeding him. I must allow him to remain the wild darling that he is and count my blessings while he is a part of our life.
Everywhere wild babies are discovering the wider world outside of the nests they were born in to. Gray and red squirrels are learning to run up and down tree trunks and make daring, acrobatic leaps from branch to branch, believing in their own agile abilities as they defy gravity and learn the lessons of squirrel school.
Chipmunks, who are so cute even as adults are doubly cute as little ones, with innocent curiosity they scamper right up the wood pile while I am stacking it and I tell them how adorable, how sweet, how cute they are and I am sure they return to momma quite full of themselves after such lavish praise but alas she shall teach them to be wary and never again will they run about with such youthful abandon but despite their scorn of my lowly humanness I shall love them just the same.
Eider ducklings slip down the rocks into the rising tide, they brave the waves in their dark downy coats. Bobbing up and down with pull of the sea, they camouflage well with the rocky, gray waters of the north Atlantic, a beautiful contrast of soft downy feathers and a cold, salty sea.
The Carolina wrens have a created a lovely mossy nest in our woodshed and I am filled with inordinate pride at the privilege of watching the whole process of nest building to the first egg until the fifth, how the usually feisty momma so patiently sits her eggs and how tirelessly she and dad bring fat caterpillars to the nestlings. Little do they know how much they have graced my life!
Red Winged Blackbirds fill the waterlogged marsh, dozens rise up as they see my approach, flashes of red against their black bodies, they talked amongst themselves and scold me loudly, apparently wholly offended at my intrusion into their watery avian nursery. If ever, when winter comes round again and you have the chance to walk on the frozen marsh and search for the Red Winged Blackbirds' nest it is amongst the great joys and wonders of the natural world, woven in between the sturdy upright Cattail stocks, it is as beautiful as any basket weaver’s artistry.
And what can be more of a love letter than thousands of new little lives that will grace the good earth, even if it is for only a fleeting moment caught up in the hands of time…
Happy June!
~ Jen
Wishing you a beautiful and blessed month of June
and
a very blessed Father's Day!
~Jen at A Vintage Wren
