So long, it’s been good to know you🎼 BY the time leave here, early on Oct 26, I will have spent 14 of the most recent months 19 here. Willow…
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Morning commute
Millie and me, morning sun at our back, comfy in our cart, trundling toward our daily routine.
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Last year, my pal Ronnie Spradlin sent me an umbrella hat. As intended, it keeps my hair dry, affords a measure of shade and provides entertainment for our campers here…
Continue readingClear sky, cool night
With a sky as clear as a Marilyn Horne aria, our warmth is fleeing quickly. The weather professionals are predicting temperatures in the mid- to upper-30s with a frost advisory…
Continue readingApple blossom time
Here in the Allegheny River watershed, in the land of Johnny Appleseed, a spring profusion of apple blossoms promises a limb-bending crop… if we can dodge a late frost.
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The hardwoods — oak, hickory, birch — are budding out. Blooms linger on the wild plums. The hills show muted shades of early green. The osprey circle above the lake…
Continue readingLeeks we like
I know… no pix or it didn’t happen. But I’m telling you… Today, my friend Ron Bradley took me over the ridge, down through the creek bottoms and up the…
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My day Mid-way through my post-prandial stroll with Millie this evening, I watched a beaver paddling serenely across a sluggish crook in Willow Creek. It occurred to me that today…
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For her first total solar eclipse, Michele stood beside Willow Bay with eclipse tourists from New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Maryland, District of Columbia and even North Dakota….
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We made a brief stop at Geneva-on-the-Lake — Michelle’s first at look at a Great Lake (Erie, in this case) –then pressed on through cold rain and flurry-ing snow, arriving…
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