It sounded like raindrops. Looking up from our steep path, it was leaves, dripping from the very tops of the maples and hickories and walnuts. Slowly at first, then gaining speed, they cascaded into one another as we watched them from our perched path. More than 200 mounds are located in this national monument. It [...]
Archive for September, 2011
Effigy Mounds National Monument
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Effigy Mounds National Monument, Harry S. Truman, Iowa - National Park, National Monuments, United States Park Service on Friday, September 30, 2011 | 22 Comments »
Rainbow Connections
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged complete arcs on rainbows, double rainbows, Iowa, Iowa rest area, Mississippi, rainbows in corn rows, Robert Frost, silo sculptures, The Road Less Traveled on Thursday, September 29, 2011 | 22 Comments »
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost On our trip up north last week, we first went west, across the Mississippi and into [...]
My Shadow
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Child's Garden of Verses, My Shadow, Robert Louis Stevenson, shadows on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 | 18 Comments »
My Shadow I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed. The [...]
Teetering
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged book piles, library books, piles of books on Monday, September 26, 2011 | 16 Comments »
When asked if I really had a teetering pile of books after a recent comment, I decided to photographing a few of them. I meant to post them before we left on our little trip, but, packing and baking and all that goes into leaving got in the way. So, here they are, teetering and [...]
Legend of the Falls
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bisque doll heads, mechanical dolls of the early 1950's on Sunday, September 25, 2011 | 17 Comments »
Legend has it that I learned to walk with this doll. It explains a lot about me. I’ve been known to trip and fall both up and down stairs, walk into plateglass windows, topple backwards while sitting writing, feet dangling from my chair . . . oh, the agony and humor of it all. The doll was given to [...]
Young at heart
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Autumn, Autumn days in the midwest, Cleome, Frank Sinatra, Oak Leaf Hydrangea, sweet potato vine, Young at Heart on Thursday, September 22, 2011 | 14 Comments »
It was one of those September days that makes one’s heart sing and one’s hands extend forward to welcome in Autumn. The temperatures hovered around 70° Farenheit, the wind danced and made shadows with the sun, and the crisp call of fall was noticeably sitting in the wings. There was the sweet potato vine, reaching [...]
The Return of Captain John Emmett
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agatha Christie, Elizabeth Speller, English mysteries, execution of soldiers and officers during WWI, mystery, The Return of Captain John Emmett, tomb of unknown soldier, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Hall, World War I mysteries on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 | 14 Comments »
While I have read many books about World War II and its aftermath, I really haven’t read many about World War I. I’m not sure why. I just haven’t. I know of the horrors of World War I through history classes and documentaries. I know my grandfather fought in that war and there is a [...]
Persuasion
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Jane Austen, Persuasion, The Return of Captain John Emmett on Monday, September 19, 2011 | 20 Comments »
In my time blogging, and reading other blogs, I have never participated in a blogger’s reading challenge, read-a-long, or other cyber-active book group. The reason is simple. I have far too many books at my elbow, far too little time, and, well, I usually have enough of a challenge getting my book read for our [...]
Composting, weaving, painting and such
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged compost piles, composting, Garden Conservancy, Painted Ladies, spider webs, William M. Davis, Young Girl Reading by a Tree on Saturday, September 17, 2011 | 16 Comments »
I wish our composting piles looked this pretty, and I wish I could weave like this spider. It might be fun to dip into a can of lavender paint and come up with a painted lady. Instead, I’ve been baking banana bread and pot roast, beckoning Autumn to come, while I sit, with my nose [...]
