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A moment of stillness after the rain
Slipped into the dark of a summer evening was a delightful sound of rain hitting the roof all night. And when it stopped the next morning there was a moment of utter stillness. Silence, no cawing,...
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August, please pause
It’s never been my favorite month, filled with biting, stinging bugs trapping us inside during the day, brittle brown grass, and exhausted gardens. A never ending rolling wall of hot darkness closing...
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The cold shoulder
That moment when….because that’s what it is, a sudden change as summer turns the cold shoulder on you. Going from toasty mornings and golden light glimmering over dry gardens, to a sulking, stinky...
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The first breath of Autumn
Despite the heat of summer’s lingering kiss, we’re starting to feel those first breaths of Autumn on the back of our once sweaty necks. And I’m not sure how that makes me feel, sad for the loss of...
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In pursuit of September’s light
September’s light bringing blissfully cool mornings flavored with low-lying puffs of luminous clouds, glowing mountains, crisp air, and bird song trilling from treetops and power lines means getting...
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I walked out with Autumn at my side
I walked into the fields to meet with Summer and left with Autumn at my side. Fortunate to witness the handing over of the seasons as they waltzed with a graceful partnership together between the...
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I’m not ready to say goodbye
Autumn storms are hard at work removing the colorful apparel that the trees wear. Their stunning golden-tinged shimmering haze of colorful leaves are falling and creating a brilliant carpet at their...
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Autumn I’ve always loved you best
Of all the seasons Autumn, I’ve loved you the most. Don’t tell the others, you’ll only make them jealous, bitter, less joyful when it’s their turn. Your colorful days that glow and light up the...
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Close encounters of a unseasonal kind
I’ve got to tell you about something really cool, not cool as in cold, but as in I’m still kind of giddy about this happening to me the other day. I’ll get to that in a moment, you’ll love it. But...
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Things I’ve forgotten about first snowfalls
It’s inevitable if you live in a cold climate that one day you are going to see snowflakes drifting down from the sky. With one comes more, until they cover the ground in a beautiful blanket of the...
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Days of cold toes and warm hearts
I can feel it creeping in like the popular poem about little cat’s feet, busyness, bright lights, and the Christmas spirit. It’s coming, circling round, settling in. Chilly from the frozen ground...
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Taking a winter break
This is my last post of 2015, I’ll be taking a winter break to spend time with my family and friends and to enjoy the beauty of the Christmas season. To bake cookies, plan dinners, visit friends. Take...
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January time to dream big
It’s a long month, waking up from the holidays stretching out like a cat from a nap, looking forward to the sweetness of the candy and flowers month ahead. January is a patchwork of gloomy days,...
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Enough?
February has always seemed like the month of enough, in a way that limits, and yet tops up our sense of fulfilment. First there’s the weather. February is a turning point in our cold season.a month of...
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The lull, when seasons stand still
There’s a time between every season, a lull, when it seems as if time stands still, that nothing happens. It’s been hanging around here resisting the change of seasons, standing in the way. A lull is a...
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A delicate balance between the seasons
Well, you said you wanted an adventure he said faint hint of a smile around his mouth. Not like this, I muttered as I slipped into the stream of shoppers headed with undue haste towards the door, large...
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Unabashedly spring
There’s a new spring in our steps, joy in our hearts, a lift, a lightening of the winter’s darkness. It’s unabashedly spring in the way that the birds are chasing each other around, calling, whistling,...
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Why…hello Spring
She dashed in here like a miniature whirlwind, out of breath, giggling, her excitement contagious. There’s dirt underneath her fingernails from where she has played in the garden tickling the bulbs...
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That seasonal light, a visual post
Even though the calendar says it’s still officially Autumn…we all know in our hearts that the darker days mean it’s winter. Who’s to let a mere calendar date tell us when our seasons fall, right? To...
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