“August was nearly over — the month of apples and falling stars, the last care-free month for the school children. The days were not hot, but sunny and limpidly clear — the first sign of advancing autumn.” — Viktor Někrasov I’ve noticed the leaves starting to color, so I’m doing my best to soak up…

“Now summer is in flower and nature’s hum is never silent round her sultry bloom.” — John Clare We were finally blessed with more rain this past week than we’d had for the last several months, and the garden approved. I’m pretty sure the squash and melons doubled in size overnight, and everything else looks…

“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.” ― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine The open house was hopping yesterday. The first folks showed up a bit early while I was still out in the blackberry patch, and we stayed…

“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” – Madeleine L’Engle Today marks the end of my 53rd year spinning around the sun, and what a year it’s been. Some days brought new knowledge and an urge to take on the world, other days it felt…

“This land pulses with life. It breathes in me; it breathes around me; it breathes in spite of me. When I walk on this land, I am walking on the heartbeat of the past and the future.” ― Brenda Sutton Rose We were finally blessed with over an inch of much needed rain this week….

“I’m not young enough to know it all.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) The older I get, and the more I learn, the more I realize that I have barely scratched the surface of potential knowledge – and my to-do list. Still, looking back reminds me that progress has been made, even if it’s not at…

“We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.” – Winston Churchill This year is going in my memories as a learning experience. Not that every year isn’t an opportunity to learn, but this one has been a zinger. Still, if…

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” —Jimmy Dean We’ve been dealing with a year for the record books here in Wisconsin, with conditions, as my mother would have said, “as dry as a popcorn fart”. There’s been only a scant bit of…

“Patterns repeat all around us and in us. Until you see it, you can’t change it, and shift to a different pattern that serves you better.” I was talking to my chiropractor this week about the exercises he recommended to help protect my knees as I get older, and changing up my routine to improve…

“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own.” ― Bruce Lee When I was growing up back on the farm, we ate a lot of seasonal produce. We also ate whatever was put on the table in front of us and didn’t complain. (It was weird to me…