Yesterday was just that kind of day. March hadn’t arrived yet; didn’t the wind know that? Was it just practicing for a really Big Blow? Whatever the reason, it was a windy day. Sunny, chilly, windy. It was a Baking Carrot Cupcakes and Picking Jonquils kind of day. So, that’s what I did–baked cupcakes, picked […]
My Dad, My Rock
·His character was as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar. He was stubborn and he could be stern. He didn’t talk an awfully lot but he had a keen sense of humor and liked a good joke. And whatever he said, I knew was the truth. The whole world might be wrong, but not my […]
Mid-Summer Meanderings
·Summer – is it at its zenith or is it on its way out? It seems that plants and animals, the very air, have a different feel about them, a sort of sleepiness, sort of lolling in the warmth but with an eye to shorter days and the next season. It’s fun to notice the behavior […]
An Encounter with a Mountain Lion
·The bear found in Tahlequah Wednesday brought to mind an encounter my 3 older brothers had with a wild animal almost 70 years ago. The animal was not a bear. It was a mountain lion. My brothers, Stan, Thurman and Tracy, teenagers at the time, had ridden their horses one night to a get-together with […]