by Carole Duff | Oct 11, 2011 | Nature |
I hate stink bugs. Unlike garden spiders and walking sticks, I get no joy watching these brown crawlers swarm up the side of the house facing the sun then hide in the cracks waiting to get inside. As soon as any door opens, in they fly or drop to climb under anything...
by Carole Duff | Oct 7, 2011 | Nature |
Colorful foliage, Goose Winter and Indian Summer often characterize autumns in New England. The term “Indian Summer” is well known, but I was unable to find any information online about the derivation of the expression “Goose Winter”. When I asked, Mother said, “I...
by Carole Duff | Sep 28, 2011 | Nature |
In advance of winter, Vanaprastha teams with reproductive activity, from oak trees peppering the ground with acorns to unseen frogs calling availability in chorus from the treetops, a little Leisure-Suit Larry romancing the large female orb-weaver at our back door to...
by Carole Duff | Sep 23, 2011 | Family, Nature |
How beautiful, the fragile wings of unseen things How terrible the transience of misplaced dreams In my pocket there hides a scrap That has written finely ‘Je t’aime’ Unguessed by you there hides a key To the portal you’ve search for, to me Stars glide, spinning in...
by Carole Duff | Sep 12, 2011 | Faith, Family, Nature, Writing and Reading |
Have you ever seen a Fairy Ring? Thanks to Irene and Lee’s soaking rains, mushrooms have sprouted in all kinds of unusual places and formations. Two weekends ago when Keith and I spent an afternoon with his father in southern Virginia, we spotted a fairy circle in...
by Carole Duff | Aug 25, 2011 | Family, Nature, Writing and Reading |
How do people respond to crises? What brings out the best and the worst in people? Who stays calm? Who barks commands? Who screams and panics? Recently, a friend of mine told me a story about a workshop where attendees were grouped by Enneagram and given this...
