My next door neighbors have been rolling their eyes at me for months now due to my complete lack of familiarity with what lies east of this county. It seems I always go west or south, never east or north. Who knows why? Maybe it’s due to my natural human inclination to go towards what [...]
Posted on March 28th, 2009 by Kathryn
Filed under: Field Trips | 30 Comments »
My daughter came last week and within a day I suggested we go into the woods. There particularly was a road I wanted to explore, but not alone, as I was familiar enough to know there were places where it was only one lane, and I still do not know where it ultimately leads. What [...]
Posted on March 18th, 2009 by Kathryn
Filed under: Sacred places | 27 Comments »
For the last month or so I kept noticing that the first two lines of Emily Dickinson’s poem “Death” were occasionally passing through my mind, like the crawl on CNN. I am very fond of Emily so I was simultaneously intrigued and curious. Last Friday evening I received a phone call that began with the [...]
Posted on March 10th, 2009 by Kathryn
Filed under: People at Life | 63 Comments »
Judging from this neighborhood creek one would think we are flush with water. Not so. A drive out to the county reservoir revealed this. One does not really anticipate sand bars in the middle of a reservoir in March. My jaunt was followed by a stop at the county water office where I was informed [...]
Posted on March 2nd, 2009 by Kathryn
Filed under: Plants | 28 Comments »
