Boxing Day

And now, mail resumes, banks re-open, people go back to work, and I’m grateful for another wonderful Christmas with my family. In many countries, this is Boxing Day, and I don’t mean it’s a time when we put on gloves and solve all our differences with combat. The day after Christmas is a day when […]

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! May the peace of candlelight,  The warmth of firelight, And the love of Christ Light your life this Christmas and in the year to come.

The Day Before Christmas

Christmas Eve I woke up this morning and sprang from my bed, with thoughts of a busy day rife in my head. On with the coffee pot, on with my blog; fill the bird feeders and also the dog. Quick, to the kitchen I go in a hurry; from counter to stove top I scoot […]

The Tail of Buz the Fox

Buz the Fox by Blanche Manos You see, it might have happened this way: once upon a time, about two thousand years ago, some foxes dwelt in the hill country and plains around Bethlehem. I hate to tell you this, but it was their custom to follow, at a discreet distance, the flocks of sheep […]

What a Short Day!

Happy first day of winter and the shortest day of the year! For those of you who are counting (and I know you are out there) the days will very slowly begin to lengthen now until around March 21, they’ll be equal in length to the nights again. Isn’t that great? My mother didn’t like […]

The Canebrake

Canebrake ABC’s Red ants, black ants marching all together, through a canebrake by the river in the lovely summer weather. Many-colored butterflies drift or dream or flit among tall stalks for the very fun of it. A caterpillar wriggles and a cricket creaks a song, surrounded by the river cane, thick and green and long. Dragonflies a-dazzle with […]