Category Archives: Natural Wonders

Twofer Tuesday – Dogwood Days of Spring

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

“After all, I don’t see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.”  ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh and To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy … Continue reading →

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Twofer Tuesday – The Story of Winter Quotes

Posted on February 19, 2013 by

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter.  Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.”  ~ Andrew Wyeth and “There is a … Continue reading →

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Twofer Tuesdays – Stormy Stormy Night

Posted on October 30, 2012 by

In the aftermath of the frightening experience of Hurricane Sandy, I offer these quotes: Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.  ~Rabindranath Tagore and  It is … Continue reading →

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Twofer Tuesday – The Long and Winding Path

Posted on October 2, 2012 by

“The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow, if I can, pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way where … Continue reading →

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Purple Car of the Weekend

Posted on September 22, 2012 by

Is it a pedal boat or a water car? Looks like a fun ride, in any case:

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A Day at the Beach – Looking for Lemonade…

Posted on August 24, 2012 by

Just when you think you have it all, the Emo Family plops themselves right in your lovely view. Nice. Why? We didn’t settle in that spot because it was the path people took to skirt the rock jetty while they … Continue reading →

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Beach Walk

Posted on August 15, 2012 by

Here’s a beach poem of mine first published in Grey Sparrow Press in 2011, issue 9: BEACH WALK My feet are paddles with baby toes curled like shrimps— or prawns breaded and waiting to be fried, resting on their sides … Continue reading →

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Twofer Tuesday – Power of the Sea

Posted on August 14, 2012 by

“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” ~Jacques Cousteau and “Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to … Continue reading →

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Up in Smoke with a Flammulated Owl

Posted on July 12, 2012 by

Flammulated: having flame shaped markings – used when describing the plumage of certain birds I was leafing through the PBS Signals magazine when I saw this word to describe a type of owl. I had to go to the Merriam-Webster … Continue reading →

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Twofer Tuesday – Straight Thoughts on Storms

Posted on July 3, 2012 by

Northern Virginia was hit by a “straight-line storm” called a derecho last Friday. Lightning scribbled the sky like a fluorescent marker. Trees shuddered and cracked. We lost power for a few days, and a tree fell across our deck. Now the sun … Continue reading →

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