Browsing All posts tagged under »Autumn«

Unexpected mercies

November 7, 2010

12

We did no chores, and have no guilt. Some days are meant for simple gratitude.

Going . . . going . . .

November 2, 2010

14

What am I bid for another fine autumn day? Just one more day . . .

Storm report

October 27, 2010

10

The raft blew away, we lost power, it rained horizonally, but then the sun came out.

Full moon rising

October 22, 2010

25

When I was a little girl I loved riding home at night, lying in the back seat of the car, looking up through the window. Mom and Dad murmured in the front seat as the radio played. Telephone poles and tall pines moved past in a steady rhythm. But the moon traveled with us, glinting between the trees, glowing bright across the potato fields.

Fire-breathing trees

October 21, 2010

15

Yesterday evening light poured over the bright trees.  Branches swirled as the west wind wheeled around to come from the north.   The sky kept changing.  All of this drama, going on right above my head—I stood out on the deck and gave myself a crick in the neck just looking at it, like a country mouse seeing skyscrapers […]

Babs says we’re past peak

October 18, 2010

16

The Babs Young Fall Assessment is in.