"Be like a flower and turn your face towards the sun." ~Kahlil Gibran ...
Words to Live by
Wildflower Seed
"Wildflower seed in the sand and wind, may the four winds blow you home again." ~Robert Hunter ...
Going for Water
When we were reading the mountains of paperwork involved in buying our new place, we discovered we had a spring with holding tanks and grandfathered-in water rights on adjacent BLM land up the hill. The fellow who lived in the house told us that about once a year, we would need to go up and clear out the pools of leaves and debris, and check the pipes in case an elk kicked them loose, to get the ...
From Every Mountainside
This evening, my son and I hiked to the top of a nearby mountain, to watch the sunset and take in the chilly, fresh air. On the walk down, in the fading light, I thought of some of my favorite words from a speech by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that seemed fitting to share in his honor today: "Let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring ...
Passing Through the Graveyard on Halloween Night
I aimed for an old fashioned Halloween this year, with creative handmade costumes, lots of jack-o-lanterns, a party, bobbing for apples, homemade cupcakes, and a bonfire. In keeping with this idea, we began and ended our trick-or-treating at the old Masonic pioneer cemetery that sits on a forested hilltop with winding paths lined with native plant ID plaques, and interpretive historical plaques at ...
The Mountains are Calling
I would like to introduce you all to an inspiring artist, seamstress, childhood preservationist and appreciator of mountains, Kristy Davis. She lives and works in Sequim, Washington at the foot of the Olympic Mountain Range (my beloved homeland), where she creates amazing dresses for her business, The Sixth Day of May. She recently posted the above photograph, and it so ...
Of Mountains and Women
"The hearts of mountains and the hearts of women Are both the same. They beat to an old rhythm, an old song. Mountains and women are made from the sinew of the rock Mountains and women are home to the spirits of the earth. Mountains and women are created with beauty all around. Mountains and women embrace the mystery of life. Mountains give patience to women. Women give fullness ...
Reach for the High Apples First
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Morning in the Fields
I was doing some blog housekeeping, and came across a handful of posts that never made it up or were quite finished. This is a passage from one of my favorite novels by Virgina Woolf, The Waves, that reminded me of misty mornings in the field behind my farmhouse. I still get a little pang of homesickness from time to time for mornings on my Elmira homestead, and this really captured my ...
Hold Fast to Dreams
"Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. " ~Langston Hughes ...