Read the whole series on home here. Our Christmas wreath is still hanging on the porch of our home. The bright red bow remains, but no longer pops bright against the winter greyscale snowscape. The evergreen boughs have turned brittle and brown, and the bow is now easily upstaged by the blooming geraniums, roses, peonies, and pansies opening to the warm summer sun. In late February, when I went to take the wreath down and place it in the compost pile, I found a nest built on the very top of the wreath, so I let it be. It was too high for me to see into the nest, but I watched as a bird came...
