Festival of the Trees #26
It’s time for the August 1st, 2008 edition of the Festival of the Trees! This week I find myself off traipsing (is that really a word?) across the north-central U.S. straggling from park to campground...
View ArticleFungus Amongus and the Trees
While wandering the property this week I found a fungus bonanza in an area where the grass has not been cut under the trees for many weeks. There were probably five or six varieties in a small area....
View ArticleChores and More for November
Such a busy weekend! We’re still recovering from our sugar highs after a fun Halloween week. After trick or treating we stopped by a local community center where many little games and tables were set...
View ArticleOn Trees and a Life Before
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray;...
View ArticleRamblings and Remembrance
Brrr…. okay, winter seems to have come early this year. Getting a lot more done inside, but at this rate we’ll be through our woodpile by the end of January. Which is a good month and half sooner...
View ArticleWinter Sun and Fun in the Barn
A beautiful sunny day, but cold! And it’s going to be colder for the next few days. I’ve been asking for snow, and look! We actually got enough flurries to dust the ice on the pond. I like how the...
View ArticlePond Ice and Green Thoughts
Too busy catching up on projects and activities over the weekend. Ah, but that’s good right? The weather can’t make up it’s mind however, swinging from cold to warm days and back again. I think...
View ArticleA Boy’s Life and Dad’s Memories
We were up playing on a swing set the other afternoon, and watched the yellow lab nosing around – we quickly realized that our little persimmon tree already had ripening fruit this year. In the past...
View ArticleSeasons Bring Change
Autumn changes are happening even faster now. The beauty of the landscape always amazes me… I love watching the seasons change as a physical reminder of how we too change and grow. Across the decades...
View ArticleMarch of the Seasons and Halloween Fun
The days come and go… I seem to remember one of my grandmothers, while visiting her in a nursing home more than a decade ago. She kept repeating, “Time and tide waits for no man…” And she would...
View ArticleThose Who Have and Are Serving Still
“Oh, what a glorious morning is this!” Samuel Adams to John Hancock, April 19th, 1775 – On hearing gunfire at Lexington Samuel Adams and John Hancock were en route to Philadelphia as delegates to the...
View ArticleA Happy Dog…
I am just a happy dog. I get to play outside, and swim and roll in the grass… life is great!
View ArticleFirst Snowfall for Chickens
“Uh, well you go first, okay?”… “Me?! Why me? I don’t know what that stuff is either!”
View ArticlePerspectives in Shadow and Light
Perhaps we’ve turned that corner… passing the shortest day of the year. Maybe in other ways too? I had a comment recently from someone enjoying one of my older photos that prompted a little...
View ArticleFestival of the Trees #26
It’s time for the August 1st, 2008 edition of the Festival of the Trees! This week I find myself off traipsing (is that really a word?) across the north-central U.S. straggling from park to campground...
View ArticleFungus Amongus and the Trees
While wandering the property this week I found a fungus bonanza in an area where the grass has not been cut under the trees for many weeks. There were probably five or six varieties in a small area....
View ArticleChores and More for November
Such a busy weekend! We’re still recovering from our sugar highs after a fun Halloween week. After trick or treating we stopped by a local community center where many little games and tables were set...
View ArticleOn Trees and a Life Before
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray;...
View ArticleRamblings and Remembrance
Brrr…. okay, winter seems to have come early this year. Getting a lot more done inside, but at this rate we’ll be through our woodpile by the end of January. Which is a good month and half sooner...
View ArticleWinter Sun and Fun in the Barn
A beautiful sunny day, but cold! And it’s going to be colder for the next few days. I’ve been asking for snow, and look! We actually got enough flurries to dust the ice on the pond. I like how the...
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