by Carole Duff | Feb 22, 2021 | Faith, Nature |
I push-broomed long swaths of melting ice and snow off the deck last Tuesday morning and cleared the driveway. By noon, bright sunshine, warmer temperatures, and steady winds finished the job, and Keith and I were able to run errands before the next incoming storm....
by Carole Duff | Feb 15, 2021 | Faith, Family, Nature, Writing and Reading |
A wintry mix began mid-afternoon on Thursday: rain followed by sleet then snow within minutes. On Friday, I swept several inches off the north side deck and shoveled the upper half of the driveway before deciding against a walk to the mailbox. Too cold for Cato, too...
by Carole Duff | Jan 18, 2021 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
We woke to a wintery skiff this morning. It was 5:15 when Heathcliff needed to go outside and relieve himself. Better than his 3 am wakeups, but that’s the season he’s in as an old dog with sugared muzzle like the snow-dusted mountains here at Vanaprastha. Heathcliff...
by Carole Duff | Dec 21, 2020 | Faith, Family, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. John 14:27 NIV We heard the tick-tick-tick of sleet pecking the dining room greenhouse windows after...
by Carole Duff | Nov 23, 2020 | Faith, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12 (NIV) Last Saturday, while blowing leaves from ditches along the driveway and mountain road in preparation for winter, I noticed the bulbs I’d planted last month on the...
by Carole Duff | Oct 19, 2020 | Faith, Family, Nature, Writing and Reading |
I dreamed it was twenty-five years ago, and my teenaged daughter was learning to drive. We had visited the Dallas Museum of Art—we lived in Texas back then—and were dropping my grade-school son at a friend’s birthday party on the way home. While monitoring my...
