The color fades from the sky, lightening to pale blue, which then grays as it gradually mixes with black. The first star appears overhead, and the tree frogs turn up the volume. Now they seem to drown out the noise of big rigs on the freeway just over the hill. And here on the side [...]
Tree frogs on Independence Day
July 6th, 2009 · 16 Comments · Feeling writerly, My dusty, muddy, redneck reality, Parenting
Tags: contentment·country·family·fireworks·Independence Day·July 4th·rural life
Things I Love Thursday
April 2nd, 2009 · 9 Comments · Death to plants!, Dogalicious, Stinkbert and Scruffalupagus, My dusty, muddy, redneck reality
FINALLY. I finished an editing job this morning, and now I’m waiting for Charlie to take a look at it. So midafternoon, I turn my mind to blogging. With one problem: I don’t know what to write about. It’s rainy and dreary here today. The kind of day you want to spend sound asleep under [...]
Tags: country·gardening·God·gratitude·mushrooms·thanksgiving
Can you make the weather outside just a LITTLE more frightful? Please?
December 3rd, 2008 · 11 Comments · wordless wednesday
Wordless Wednesday Please? *** Our dirt road in the snow five years ago. The closest we’ve come since then is an ice storm. Not exactly the same.
Tags: country·rural·snow·winter·wordless wednesday




