Went looking for birds this Christmas Eve morning and found more than I’d hoped to find!
Photos by Karen Molenaar Terrell taken in Skagit County, Washington.












Went looking for birds this Christmas Eve morning and found more than I’d hoped to find!
Photos by Karen Molenaar Terrell taken in Skagit County, Washington.
Spent the morning with the birds yesterday. (Heron at Padilla Bay and trumpeter swans in Bow, Washington.)
(Photos by Karen Molenaar Terrell.)
Trumpeter swans in the snow.
Photos by Karen Molenaar Terrell.
Living tree ornaments in western Washington…
They got you through the winter, Karen
They got you through the grey, the rain, the cold
They got you through dreary days and showed
you beauty in the muck, grace in the mud
And now it’s just dawning on you that they’re gone
they’ve left your valley, returned to their summer
homes. As the fruit blossoms bloom and bud
and the earth grows green again with new life
and you celebrate the joys of spring, there’s a part
of you still feels a little the loss of them. But they’ll
return when the nights grow long again, when
the earth freezes and hardens and loses color
They’ll get you through the winter, Karen.
– Karen Molenaar Terrell
Snow geese and trumpeter swans in Skagit County, Washington. Photos by Karen Molenaaar Terrell.