Bursting and Buzzing
Well the trees are blooming and you know what that means? Bees. There is a row of pink flowering trees (by Friday I promise to find out what they are) along the great lawn below a small grove of cedar
Worthy of Andy (Goldsworthy that is)
I spent a morning with my family gathering rocks of red and white for no other purpose than to line them up in a serpentine procession into the chilly March waters of East Austin Creek. My son gathered rocks for
Stones in the River
I spent the weekend out at our place in Cazadero nestled in the redwoods above a meandering creek. This time of year the creek is raging with the force of winter rains. The ground is long since saturated and the
Wild Mustard March
The teeter-totter ride continued this week with nearly two inches of rain one day and 6o degree weather the next and persistent fog yesterday, glorious sunshine this morning and rain in the forecast for tomorrow. I guess that’s the very
Balancing on the thin line between Winter and Spring
I apologize in advance to all of you who do not live in the west and perhaps are not astride the winter/spring teeter-totter. But here in beautiful Sonoma County spring, as I said in last week’s blog post, has spoken
What’s in a name?
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” so Juliet tells Romeo in Shakespeare’s tragedy of a play. And what about the “Fetid Adder’s Tongue”? Why such tragically ugly
♥ Shaped Love in Four Acts
I got a lot of responses this week to Monday’s post, and it seems (no surprise to you) that love, as Frank would sing it, is a many splendored thing and complicated! I did a little research this week and
My ♥’s on Fire, it’s Valentine’s Day!
Happy Valentine’s faithful reader, may your day be filled with love! As a kid the Valentine’s Day Party was my favorite school event. I loved making Valentine’s, writing out the names on the envelopes, and delivering the notes into Kleenex boxes
Today Rabbit just might win the race
Those born in the year of the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac are said to be: articulate, talented, and ambitious. They exhibit the best of taste and are good mannered, they give sound council and are extremely lucky with money
BE the Rooster: something to crow about
Well I had and interesting week trying to BE the Rooster. I first thought about my personal encounters with Roosters, and to be perfectly honest they are few. The most striking and memorable experience with roosters has been on my