It is thundering without rain.  The silence between the claps is deafening.   The trees are still, and the birds have flown to the ground.  ...

 

When I was young, my mother would sometimes send my brother and me into the fields to pick wild strawberries. We were always admonished to w...

My husband set out today to visit the big bad world, leaving me here to watch the home fires. I worried terribly the entire time he was ou...

I have never seen such wind. I understand there are downed trees every where, lots of power outages. Worst of all, there are forest fires. T...

Last night the thunder rolled and the lightning flashed. Ka-boom! Pow. Zap. The rain fell and we were grateful. "The millet seed will ...

Recently while I was searching for crackers, I went down the cereal aisle at the local grocer. I usually buy my cereal over in the "or...

Yesterday my friend J. S. and I took a jaunt to a secret area. My goal was to see if the trillium was in bloom (you may recall I wrote about...

The April cold snap has done a lot of damage to the vegetation. I was at Ikenberry's Monday and G. told me they'd lost about half of...