Dec 31
I’ve been fighting a flu here at year’s end. So this last post of 2023 is a quickie. 2023 was a, ‘challenging’ year (to put it mildly). And the sallow, grey, late fall and winter light has been draining. I took this photo at a local fair, July 3, 2010. I chose this image, not …
Nov 27
“You don’t waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets, and there would be weeks of gray before it finally decided to snow.” ~ Katherine Arden, Small Spaces
Nov 19
“There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.” ~Robert Brault
Nov 15
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ~ Albert Camus
Apr 13
“Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mar 26
“Groundhog found fog. New snows and blue toes. Fine and dandy for Valentine candy. Snow spittin’; if you’re not mitten-smitten, you’ll be frostbitten! By jing-y feels spring-y.” ~ The Old Farmer’s Almanac
Dec 31
As I’ve noted before, I’m rather a fan of yard Kitsch. (As long as its in other people’s yards, not mine and not my next door neighbors. [- It’s more of an, ‘admire from afar’ appreciation.]) So, it was with some enjoyment that I share this house. Every year, it’s good for some amusement. But …
Jun 28
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” ~Pablo Neruda
May 31
“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” ~Yoko Ono
Feb 29
Ah! February 29th: the rarest of blog days. Kind of makes me wish I was born on February 29th, then I’d be four times as young. Since September of last year (2019), I’ve been getting out, doing a lot of walking and hiking. And this last weekend, we did an overnight backpack trip. (I’ve done …
Dec 30
I’m not a winter person. But this year, (so far) I’ve done better than many winters before. (I count anything after Halloween as proverbial, if not literal, ‘winter’.) My mood has been helped in large part because I’ve gotten out regularly to hike and imbibe nature in spite of the seasonal gloom. Still, I’m finishing …
Nov 30
“There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.” ~Robert Brault
Jun 04
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May, but at length the season of summer does come. ~Thomas Carlyle
Mar 20
At 2:16pm, Eastern Standard Time, spring – sprung. It also happens that this morning I noticed new, green buds on a tree outside my balcony for the first time this year. And it’s raining. – All very appropriate for Spring. It use to be that Spring was my least favorite time of the year due …
Mar 15
The Ides of March. It’s 70 degrees. My porch door is open. Spring can not come soon enough.
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