If ever there was a month not to be trusted, it’s March! For example, it is a mere thirty degrees this morning, the roofs wear coatings of frost, and a slight breeze barely stirs last year’s leaves. Sounds like a pretty lamb-like start to a new month, right? This is the month when spring officially […]
Feb 27, 2014
Sun Snow
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Sun snow–did you ever see it? Yesterday morning, the sun was shining and only one small, dark cloud had crept up from the horizon, when I glanced out the window and lo and behold! snow was falling. Sun and snow, all at the same time. The other clouds which had been lurking on the horizon, […]
Feb 26, 2014
A Slice of Crescent Moon Hung in the Pale Sky…
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The temperature is a right brisk seventeen degrees this morning! The moon is eleven per cent full and is a waning crescent. The sky is clear but around the horizon hovers a band of blue-purple clouds, ominous in the pale sky. The weatherman is saying that by Friday, we may indeed have another round of […]
Feb 25, 2014
Possibilities
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A weird, ghostly image floats back and forth in the front window of my neighbor’s house across the street. Now, if it were a moonlit night, and the wind was blowing with an eerie sound, and I happened to glimpse that faint, disembodied object, my mystery writer’s brain would go into high gear. As it […]
Feb 23, 2014
Sunday Morning Meanderings
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Another Lord’s Day! Of course, every day belongs to the Lord but it is most often on Sundays (and sometimes Saturdays and Saturday nights) that Christians around the world go to church to celebrate our Saviour. In long ago Etta Bend, there was no church but there was the schoolhouse. People went to the school […]
Feb 22, 2014
Comfort and Quilts
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Yesterday I wrote about my thoughts being a potpourri, a mixture of this and that. The day turned out to be that way too. The good far out-weighed the bad and the bad wasn’t all that bad; I took a tumble but the good part was, I sprang right up with no assistance, I didn’t […]
