A new addition to this website – Poems and Essays. Plus buttons!
I have added a new section to this website. A place for you to post your poems and essays on nature. You can either click on “Submit your story” for an email form or use your own email form and send your poem or essay to: lindahendricksspence@birdingbeyondthefieldguide.com. If you have a question about this section, please use either method to contact me and ask.
I am so very fortunate to have a step-daughter – Noel – who is so savvy. I asked her how I could make it easier for all of you to contact me with questions, observations, and now submissions. She told me about buttons – I had no idea what they were. Now, scattered throughout the website, you will find ‘buttons’. My blog has one: “Share your thoughts”. If you click on that, an email form will come right up and you can comment on anything I have written or tell me something about what you have observed. In Videos and Everything Bird!, it is “Send us a note”. In Landscaping and Gardening for Birds and All Wildlife, it is “Ask a question”. Click on any of these and you can type in and send me whatever it is you would to say or ask. Please use them! You will get an immediate acknowledgement that I have received your email and I will answer personally as soon as I can – give me a few days!
An update on our drought here in central Illinois – although it has rained off and on for the past about 10 days and we did get about 2 inches of slow steady rain over that period, we are still in a drought. Our lake remains about 2 feet below where it should be. Trees, shrubs, and plants will now winter better with this rain, but our ground water is still not close to the level it should be. Towns throughout central Illinois are small. Many people live on farms or in isolated houses or small neighborhoods. All towns have municipal water, but farmers and isolated houses and neighborhoods do not. Cleon and I live in an isolated neighborhood. Everyone in our neighborhood has wells so the drought is of continued concern to all of us. We are still about 15 inches short of where we should be in annual rainfall.