by Carole Duff | Sep 3, 2018 | Family, Nature |
What’s on today’s menu? Barbecued ham, whipped potatoes, and veggies—a picnic on the dining deck later this afternoon. I remember neighborhood picnics on the 4th of July and Labor Day, the official opening and closing of summer in Connecticut. Very few braved a cold...
by Carole Duff | Aug 29, 2018 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Writing and Reading |
Bonus today! Here’s a guest blog post published on Brevity and starring our dog Heathcliff: https://brevity.wordpress.com/2018/08/29/finding-your-essay/ Enjoy! -C.D.
by Carole Duff | Aug 27, 2018 | Faith, Nature |
You say goodbye to a former neighbor, having enjoyed dinner together, and dash to your truck. Rainfall has shifted from drizzle to downpour. You switch from 2- to 4-wheel-drive. Dusk descends into the darkest of nights. You are driving to another friend’s house about...
by Carole Duff | Aug 13, 2018 | Faith, Nature, Writing and Reading |
Torrential rain coursed the down mountain yesterday afternoon here at Vanaprastha, creating rivulets along the driveway. This morning, I went out to assess the damage and rake gravel into the erosive paths. Every few years, we hire our landscaper to grade and...
by Carole Duff | Aug 6, 2018 | Faith, Nature, Writing and Reading |
Encouraged by last week’s rain, my square-foot garden’s squash, tomatoes, and cucumbers leaped beyond the confines of their boxes—as you can see. All other vegetation here at Vanaprastha grew happily, too, including weeds. Thus, in the light of today’s sunshine,...
by Carole Duff | Jul 30, 2018 | Faith, Nature |
Last Saturday afternoon, on my way down the mountain to fetch the mail, I noticed a black swallowtail (Papilionidae) sipping nectar from cardinal flowers blooming on the slope beside the upper driveway. The bright red trumpet-shaped blossoms of lobelia cardinalis,...
