Category Archives: Seasons

:: All Hallow’s Eve ::

I’m in the way of writing about Halloween today.  I know I’ve written about it a little before, but today is such a gloriously gloomy sort of day, I’m just feelin’ it.  I love holidays.  I love the ones that … Continue reading

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~o:> October Notes

When I posted on Moment-to-moment this morning, I got this for my security word: Altrumat. I think I’m going to be asking questions here, and wanting answers.  Question one: how would you define this word? Come on, come on – … Continue reading

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~o:> Winding down

There are just times when (you: finally sitting on the couch after many days, house now quiet) your eyelids just keep drifting down, all by themselves.  And there are also times you jump up to dance around the house, rejoicing … Continue reading

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~o:> Ah, to be clever and crafty!

I guess it’s because of the photobooks that my days disappear so quickly.  My Cammon dropped by the other morning to borrow G’s iPod.  I noticed the green truck at our curb, sandwiched into a line of string players’ vehicles … Continue reading

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~o:> Autumn Continued

Picking up where we left off: Here we were, at the top of the ridge, looking down on this incredible grass valley. And we’re slowly lurching down this steep path. Now, pretend you’re me.  You’re not me.  But you could … Continue reading

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:: Flaming Autumn ::

I am certain this will be part one.  I took over 200 shots when we went up the mountain on Saturday – took the big camera in the gigantic camera case, slung across my back (and dangling at my side, … Continue reading

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:: Up the mountain ::

This header, I just wanted to explain, is just another one of my poor efforts to capture the river light.  You can see that the yard is dark – that dark, velvet green of late summer.  But the last light … Continue reading

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=:Red, White and Blue Pt. 2:=

And then, there’s this year: I started out with fireworks;  I’d noticed these last week as I went whipping by, off on my business.  Like the red rocker, they caught me by the eyes and brought me swinging back—explosions of … Continue reading

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May 3 week: pt. 3

A new word:  hecti.  What could it ever mean? (By the way – you know that dust you see in the header?  That’s about one third of the dust we ended up with by the following week – and what … Continue reading

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:*/Sproing*:

Pictures of spring to follow.  But first, a little verbal sparring: Define: dicasity Rachel: As for the word dicasity: that would be me! :D Marilyn: Dicasity: the ability of something to be die-cast? Zinc has a high dicasity, broccoli has … Continue reading

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