New Life Spring Time in North Dakota

Spring is in full bloom here in ND.   I have talked a lot in the past blogs about how I really love the newness of spring.   It really is my favorite part the year.   This year here in ND has been a really nice experience even though it is so far behind SC and the east coast I’m used too.   

This spring what has made a big impact was seeing process of baby geese being brought into the world.   It was so fun to watch the geese making their nests and then seeing that they laid eggs in them.   How the spouses were so protective on the mother goose and nest.   I was able to interact with this pair in a really unexpected way.   The pair were friendly enough that I was able to sit right next to the nest.  Up until her babies hatched I visited her often.   She would show off her eggs like a proud mother. 

When the babies hatched they were so adorable.  I had a great time taking photos of them.   It is just cool seeing new life making its way in the world!

One of the other things I really enjoy is the tree in bloom.   The pink colors are just so wonderful.  It just makes me smile.   One of the thing I miss from my old job was the traveling up and down the east coast.   It always seemed to give a extended spring time.   So this year I tried to take full advantage of spring, well and after the winter I was ready to see some green too.

Here is a few photos that I have captured over the last weeks.

Can we afford to be judgmental?

It seems in today’s times it’s fashionable to be so judgmental and to pick a radical political side.   Not too long ago in the past that we as people could come to a common agreements and meet in the middle on subjects.    We really see this in politics and religion today and it makes me sad.   

As one of the great countries we still are knowingly discriminating on all kinds of citizen’s.    If you’re gay people are not serving them food all in the name of religious freedom.   The homeless in your community that you walk by and look down on in disgust and think horrible things about because they don’t have a place to call home..    What about the immigrant worker just trying to make a new life for their family living in fear of being deported.    

I is heartbreaking that North Dakota were I am currently living just voted down the bill SB2279 which would have amended the law to add sexual orientation to the law of things to you can’t discriminate against   North Dakota is one of the states that is growing the fastest and yet they choose to stay in the dark ages.  .  It is sad in today’s age I can be terminated from my job or not rented a house because of who my life partner is here in North Dakota and the legislators are okay with that.  How is that serving all the people in the community?

That brings me back to the just treating people in a kind and respectful way because it’s just the right thing to do.