It’s the middle of winter but you’d never know it from the weather…

Our ten day forecast looks like this…

We’re heading up to almost 80° in the coming week.

I’ve been noticing a difference in our bird visitors in the past few years. I haven’t seen any Crested Titmouses at all in months, they were once a common daily visitor to my feeders. Also, it’s been a couple of winters now since my feeders were overrun with American Goldfinches. I’ve missed both species.

There’s another species missing from the environment lately… Republicans with any moral integrity. But, in reality, they’ve been missing for awhile. But the show they put on in the Senate these past weeks (what am I saying… Moscow Mitch has been putting on this show since 2008) has reached a new low in Republican double speak.

I can only assume they will get away with it in their fact free environment in the right wing media. And all for the ability to pack the courts

As I approach another anniversary of my trips around the sun, I find myself discouraged that we will ever break free from the bigoted backlash against everything new(?). There seems to exist in the world a wish to return to the middle of the 20th century ideal that never really existed, a dreamland seen in hindsight. A middle American dream, a small town middle America that wasn’t really there.

Here’s to dreams… May your dreams not become my nightmare… oops… too late.