Prairie Winds Farm

Today I saw a beautiful iris blooming in my garden. Immediately, I thought of the person who gave me this magnificiently colored iris as a birthday gift five years ago. How beautiful it is to remember a fondness of a friend with a breathtaking specimen. Each year as this iris continues blooming I will have fond memories of my precious friend. Be sure to spread a little cheer with a gardening friend when you get the chance to. You can be sure that your gift will continue on with its therapeutic beauty year after year without fail.

Today as I peered outside a window, I saw this young hawk resting upon our fence. We have lots of hawks in our neighborhood and I enjoy watching them soar. I have made a large brush pile in order to house wild animals, skunks, snakes, rabbits etc. It sounds awful that I should expect the hawk to find food from my brush-pile but that is indeed one reason that I made it. It serves nature in that it is a home and a food source for wildlife. I had the privilege of seeing the mother of this hawk swoop down and carry off a two foot garden snake to feed upon. She was only a few feet away from me when she made the landing upon the snake. She carried it off dangling below her talons. That was a surprise... Here is a photo of brush-pile.