The Choir The robins — who had been joined by a few loud wrens — were still meeting weekly to rehearse their holiday carols. Today, they had agreed to meet in the honeysuckle bushes by the garden fence, where they could snack on berries after rehearsal....
The Night-dark Meadow Some evenings, when the moon was nothing more than a sliver of a crescent, and as the first few stars winked in the black night sky, Rabbit would venture out into the meadow. She liked to sit in the dark, sniff the night air, and...
The Early Morning Flight Crow was flying in giant, lazy circles above the garden and the surrounding neighborhood, enjoying the cool air, and listening to things. It was such a still morning that, in addition to the rustle of other birds’ wings, Crow...
The Jewel-toned Trees Rabbit, Raccoon, and Mama Chipmunk all agreed (while discussing the topic over their mid-morning tea and cake) that they had never seen a prettier autumn. They could not, however, quite decide which was their favorite: the soft...
The Sketchbook At her friend’s insistence, Rabbit left the tea shop in Raccoon’s capable hands for an hour and went outside. After nestling a folding chair into the drifts of rustling leaves in the meadow, Rabbit pulled a sketchbook, several pencils, and...
The Leafy Walk The wind had continued overnight and throughout the day, emptying trees of red, gold, brown, and orange leaves, which floated and swirled through the air before settling into deep, multicolored drifts along the edges of the neighborhood streets...
