{"id":17230,"date":"2014-11-29T14:31:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T20:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=17230"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:06:42","slug":"natures-anniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/11\/29\/natures-anniversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature’s Anniversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nature\u2019s<\/p>\n

People often talk about big “anniversaries” like how many years they have been married, how long they have had their house or car.<\/p>\n

For many nature lovers it is the smaller more seasonal anniversaries that mean so much too.<\/p>\n

When the first crocus that pushes its way through the crust of snow to bloom on an early spring day. The first chorus from spring peepers.<\/p>\n

When the first spring migrant’s return to their nesting grounds. The first wildflowers blooming high in the mountains, on the plains, forests, canyons or deserts.<\/p>\n

Sighting the first butterfly. The first hatchling, kit, pup, or fawn. Experiencing first summer thunderstorm.<\/p>\n

Then the first show of fall colors, skeins of geese flying south, the fruits ripening that formed in an earlier season. The first frost. The first snow.<\/p>\n

The first warm wind from the south that signals the start of the cycle of nature’s anniversaries all over again.<\/p>\n

We really can’t ignore them all.<\/p>\n

Life is good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For many nature lovers it is the smaller more seasonal anniversaries that mean so much too. 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