by Carole Duff | Nov 14, 2022 | Faith, Nature |
Extreme Weather Friday, we woke to the following extreme weather warning: “The National Weather Service has issued tornado watch in effect until 3 PM EST this afternoon for the following areas”—6 counties in central Virginia, including ours. Tornadoes exceed the...
by Carole Duff | Oct 31, 2022 | Faith, Family |
Today, on Halloween, let’s consider the word WHILE and the seasons of life. While as verb: to while away the Halloweens of our youth While seasons lasted forever, we whiled away our youthful time, marching from childhood into adolescence, which gave us lessons along...
by Carole Duff | Oct 10, 2022 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
To begin to be, to become, as here with fall coming to Vanaprastha. From foreground to background: marigolds clustered in bloom, spice bush leaves yellowing, river oak grasses going to seed in the meadow in front of the house and behind, maples tinted red. When...
by Carole Duff | Oct 3, 2022 | Faith |
The physical road On Saturday morning, thanks to Ian’s wind and rain, Keith and I woke to leaves and debris scattered across the driveway and the neighborhood road. The road—that’s pretty much all we talk about during the annual meeting every third Saturday in...
by Carole Duff | Sep 19, 2022 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Nature |
Spontaneous insects A spontaneous reaction: hundreds of angry hornets, acting on instinct to protect their nest. But it was the landscape crew that needed protection. They had cut down a dead tree along the walking trail above the driveway and discovered the tree was...
