Yesterday the roof was finally bare of snow. There was a cluster of inch high daffodil spikes in a muddy brown spot in the shelter of a South-facing corner of the house. Today I just finished shoveling a foot or so of snow and the weather wizards say that more is coming. Sigh.
For some time [...]
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Connections
Posted in Lessons, Uncategorized on March 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Live Free or Die. . . and Lie?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Perhaps I should say fib or prevaricate or string along. A lie, after all, is in the eye of the beholder.
It’s quiet in New Hampshire. The political bird flocks have flown south and west. We are in a weather deep freeze now that the hot air supply has diminished. The phones [...]
In Celebration of the Pumpkin
Posted in Uncategorized on October 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Up out of the pungent darkness they come, reaching upward with tenuous fingers, slight wispy green fingerlings cracking the dried, caked surface of the soil. Then come the paired leaves, green striped ovals, oriental dancers’ hands opened above their heads. The mounds in the fields pop with nose-gays, green polka dots on brown. [...]
