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Singing with Grateful Hearts
It was a couple of days before Thanksgiving, and the newly formed community children’s choir rehearsal drew to an end. Their Christmas concert was just a couple of weeks hence. The group of 14 or so elementary-aged children sang, talked, wiggled,…
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The Honey Guide
It was during this week two years ago I took a summer stroll through the world-famous Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis. As I wandered through the many sections and pathways, thousands of varieties of colorful flowers, trees, vines, ferns, waterlilies,…
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A Gully or a Furrow?
Every spring, some of the land around here is washed into deep gullies by sudden cloudbursts combined with our unstable, thin soil. Whether you call them gully-washers, frog-stranglers or trash-movers, these powerful deluges instantly fill time-worn ravines or create new ones.…
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A Plum-Tinged Hope
Down the slope a little way from the house, not far from the gravel driveway, two plum trees are loaded with fruit. Their branches are bending low with the bounty of dozens and dozens of red-violet beauties. The plums are slightly…
