The year 2011 is already here and we have now gestated half of the first month. Which leads to the…
Bits and Pieces
Bragging
Well, folks, here I am, sooner than I thought, aching a lot and bragging a bit. It just so happens…
Barn owls
This past week has been a rather interesting one for me. Apart from the interrupting interaction of…
January 2012
Christmas comes and Christmas goes and the New Year is now upon us. It happens each and every year…
Easter Bunnies
You are not going to believe this, but the Easter Bunny came to our house Easter Sunday. It has…
Butterflies
Butterflies, and I’m not talking about butterflies in my stomach. The three score years and…
Hunting season
Bang, bang and sometimes bang again, at the crack of dawn, quite often is the first thing I hear up…
Spring
By the time this paper was slogged off at your mailbox, the calendar equinox dated as the first day…
Kingbirds
It has been a couple or more years since we have seen them. The fact remains that the large tree,…
Ticktock of time
The years they come and the years they go, with the ticking of each second of time persistent. Time…
The smell of food
I don’t think there is anything more pleasant than walking, on a cold, cold winter day, into…
Rainbow’s end
In a younger year, I was often told of a pot of gold that waited at the rainbow’s end. But…
Fall has fallen
As I sit down before my computer tonight, I have just watched a beautiful sunset. The sky was the…
Stop the press
Not often does stop-the-press news cross my desk, but when it comes but once in a hundred years, I…
Blue indigo mood
When I arose this past morning, the sun had no intention of peeking through the heavy cloud cover…