Six on Saturday: A Hint of Spring
We have a whiff of spring in the midst of winter. It was wintry here well before the Winter Solstice this year, transitioning from autumn to frozen in late November. It has been much colder than usual for weeks, with days when we tried to not even open the door except to collect the mail.…
Silent Sunday: Rest
“The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.” May Sarton
Sunday Morning Sunrise: River Beach
“There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.” Terry Pratchett “Take only pictures, leave only footprints, and kill nothing but time.” Learn more about how the trees growing along this beach heal us,…
Silent Sunday: Summer’s End
“Our lives have ebbs and flows. Ends and beginnings are illusions. Starting over is nothing more than recognizing The Pause before picking up your thread and continuing to weave your own story.” Molly M. Cantrell-Kraig See more photos of this beautiful coastal wildflower
Silent Sunday: Morning Walk
“Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; you have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.” Cindy Ross
Six on Saturday: Wild Things
The first major hurricane of the season, Erin, passed us by well offshore. I take that as a good omen for the rest of hurricane season, which lasts here through November. There are at least two more potential storms out in the Atlantic Ocean at the moment, and they are forecast to also stay offshore…
Black Vultures, Morning Beach
“Wings are of many kinds. Butterfly’s wings, vulture’s wings, eagle-wings, spread wings of white swans, dragonfly’s serene wings, wings of albatross, lovely wings of humming birds, tiny wings of a fly or a bumble-bee-wings; and when they fly, they fly their best according to their ability of flying.” Munia Khan Black vultures gathered on the…
Silent Sunday:
“The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal. Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal.…
Six on Saturday: Un-planted and Unplanned
Some large part of gardening is about control. Many of us obsessive gardeners look at a space and imagine what we want to plant there; we dream about how it will look after we’ve worked with it for a few years. We wander through a plant sale or nursery and choose plants in much the…
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