by Carole Duff | Feb 29, 2016 | Nature, Writing and Reading |
Happy February 29th! Because our calendar contains 365 whole days and our solar year is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 47 seconds, we add a day every four years to synchronize with the seasons. We make an additional tweak to our calendar at 100-year...
by Carole Duff | Feb 15, 2016 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Writing and Reading |
“How was your day, Sweetheart,” my husband Keith asked. It was mid-afternoon last week, and he’d wandered into the kitchen along with dogs. A hambone simmered in a large pot on the stove. I was cutting onions, celery and carrots for lentil soup. “Good, thank you, a...
by Carole Duff | Dec 14, 2015 | Local or Human Interest, Nature |
Our first morning on board the cruise ship in Istanbul, Keith and I rose early, took the elevator to the 7th deck and walked into the World Café. We passed the coffee and juice bar, then oohed and aahed at the assortment of fruits, cheeses, yogurts and fish, wondered...
by Carole Duff | Dec 7, 2015 | Dogs & Other Creatures |
“Oh, what nice dogs,” I said to Keith as we ambled through the Temple of Apollo in Didyma near Miletus, Turkey. Two free-range dogs accompanied our small group as we soaked up blends of Greek, Roman and Turkish cultures. The mixed-breed pups tussled with one another,...
by Carole Duff | Oct 12, 2015 | Nature |
Every year at Vanaprastha, autumn creeps down the Blue Ridge Mountains into the Rockfish Valley. Typically, some trees’ leaves change ahead of the curve. In the case of the maple in back of our house, part of the tree got a head start. Nature’s seasons are like a...
by Carole Duff | Oct 5, 2015 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Family, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
Freya darted ahead while Heathcliff walked on-leash with me down the stone trail from the house to the driveway. It was late afternoon last Tuesday, and we’d had a tremendous storm. I heard a roar. We followed the sound down the hill to the bottom of the ravine. Rain...
