Searching for a Balance

  Well I must be on a roll, because I was able to wash three windows today. And the crisp air, the deep sky, the coolness that came in while...

 The maple I see out* the kitchen window I just cleaned glows yellow in the light of evening.  Yes, at this late date I have started to wash...

The cool wind blew through my windows all day, tossing papers around and bringing a bit of chill into the house, but I was determined to put...

I am a countryman, Lord, who comes from the country of the world. Teach me your city's ordered ways, the courtesies and gracious manner ...

 on top of the mulch. Sweet little fellow.

 We've had such beautiful weather this week - so welcome, after the Previous Awful. And the nights are in the fifties lately! Very unusu...

Perfect days like this make you forget the ones that went before - it was wonderful. Sunny, temperate, very breezy. I went out and wished I...

 We're in for some very springlike temperatures this week. The snow has greatly receded, the grass is showing itself, along with puddly ...

 We're going to have snow Saturday. I'm looking forward to it, though it won't be much. Today there was sun, and I slipped outsi...

I had some windows open today while I did my work, it was so mild! The dampness didn't matter because I was using the oven. The cats wer...

 

 I thought I could do more out in the garden area today but it suddenly rained a bit and got damp and cold. Still, I did go out later and sa...

 It was very windy yesterday, and I was watching the oak trees blowing outside the window at work. We don't have oaks on our street. I w...

 I've been washing windows. I'm getting a little nervous; it's almost November and it's mainly in the fifties during the day...

Well, it was pretty cool today and will be freezing tonight, so I guess that's the end of summer. The forecast predicts days in the fift...

The nasturtium bloomed. I was wondering if it would. The other things on the front steps are in the pink family, so I'll have to figure ...

 That was Coleridge. And oh, a day of cool air, breezing in my window, puffy clouds all over the sky! But I didn't move fast enough to r...

I had just shut off the a/c, opened my side window, and was watching the pretty sparkle of the fireflies, when someone on the street behind ...

 It’s not quite seventy degrees today. And by that, what I really mean is, it’s thirty degrees cooler than it was yesterday.  it was not thi...

 My brother mowed the lawn yesterday. I stepped outside in the morning to empty some trash, in time to hear a mockingbird giving his spring ...