A certain time of year a certain time in summer the maize gets sweet on us Daytime starch turns to early morning sugar much to our taste buds delight! Sun and rain soil and genes do their dance so well there is a reward for us Early morning finds us ripping the ears off stalks [...]
On the banks of the Puget Sound the town of Edmunds perches a little area there is known as 'The Bowl" Not hard to picture this scenic area nestled, backed against the hills Middle America, Mid-West, upper Mississippi Valley, is a bowl of sorts as well even though locally it's flat from space it would [...]
Tucked just beside old Route 66 and across the way from Lincoln's court house a long handled pump sits atop a well a sesquicentennial marvel Honest Abe put his hands on that self same handle you can I can pump it too just like he did 150 years ago or so Riding the circuit palavering [...]
Our lives are really surrounded by springs both big and small The energy found inside them serves us every day Our cars have springs in brakes and doors hidden here and there Kitchens have them every where in drawers and doors and little machines switches and light fixtures all rely on the power in the [...]
History is laced with them keystones of the seasons little wedges placed just so at just the right time and place to connect the dots Governments come and go people swirling, dancing briefly passing on and far away So often, it seems to me just a little group just a few folks take control Fists [...]
<Two very different groups share the night time hours One stays up late into the wee small hours the other awakens early charged with waiting for the sunrise Some establishments sit, quiet mornings, abandoned, slowly stirring afternoons, coming awake evenings Music begins cigarettes are lit alcohol begins to flow Relief from work breaks out greeting, [...]
The media seldom notice but amongst the men of power, renown, there comes along, now and then, some fellows, men of distinction Casper Weinberger comes to mind. A man of chosen words moving daily on the world stage comportment solid, reassuring I met a local man last night who had a common thing with [...]
A certain honor is given to the father of the bride He's been there along the way birth, teething, walking and running Little arms around his neck riding high on his shoulders Along the way she grew and suddenly became a woman so quickly, it happened Comes a day grand as grand can be folks [...]
So here I sat in great grandma's wooden chair the spare my office has Next to me back straight as a Marine sat the latest geek! I the geezer, he the geek, gazed at the computer screen menus flashed as he clicked along Talk about fast! My 120 year old chair didn't care, as usual, [...]
Under our radar lots of things hide Whole worlds of little plants little animals grow and survive Earlier I wrote of God's favorite color (that being gray, that day) Well I now have discovered most interesting plants or animals or we're not sure what to call them When a fungus marries an algae it produces [...]