The equinox is only two days away and for me it can’t come soon enough. I yearn for cool evenings, firepits and warm stew that steeps on the stove all Sunday afternoon. The sunrise and sunset are getting noticeably closer together. When I go on my morning walks, I can see a shift in theContinue reading “September”
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Stillness of the Autumn Landscape
10/25/25 A walk today in the mid-afternoon sun on a nearly deserted lake front road stimulated my senses. As I approached the water, it was so quiet that I could hear the wind rustling the Pampas grass by the water’s edge while insects in the reeds trilled to each other, oblivious to my presence. AnContinue reading “Stillness of the Autumn Landscape”
A Change of Season
September 14, 2025 There is a slant to the sunlight, even on an 80-degree mid-September day that tells me it is almost Autumn. The oak trees and hickories I pass on my walks are still fully festooned with dark green leaves, but the angled sunlight gives them a yellowish cast. Here and there I seeContinue reading “A Change of Season”