The fog sidled in quietly and swallowed the neighborhood.  The vast expanses seemed to disappear in the gray shroud, allowing only the proximal to be visible.  Fog is an interesting atmospheric phenomenon and almost always tricks the eye into believing the fog’s…

The sun settled in the western sky, like an unlit celestial match, dropping quickly to the horizon where it collided and set the sky ablaze, the clouds smouldering like embers.  Sunsets – a heavenly gift.  Nature unrestrained and uninhibited.  Perfect. So…

The Tulips, ready to bloom, await the warmth of the sun to unfurl their Spring gaiety.  Until then, they remain tightly bundled, much like us, as the temperatures have been less than inviting and down right cold.  It even snowed…

The Forsythia are golden and aglow.  The Daffodils stand tall and proud with slightly tilted heads, while the Crabapples and Magnolia explode with blooms that fill the air with their ethereal scent.  Much has happened in a week, and from here on out, the landscape…

Today looks and feels a little more akin to Fall than Spring.  Sometimes I like to imagine I’d just awaken from a deep, lengthy sleep – completely unaware of time or season.  Would I know if it was Spring or Fall?  A quick…

The air has a certain sweetness, unique only to Spring, and there’s a sense of great activity as witnessed in the neighborhood birds and squirrels.  In fact, as I stepped outside the other evening, the birds were still chattering away,…

As I write this, the ground is still blanketed in snow, but the earth does not lie quiet and defeated.  There’s an undeniable energy and buzz.  The snow is but a minor set back, and Spring wears it with the utmost…

  On the frayed edge of Winter, we wait.  Spring is just days away.  We are hopeful.  We are spirited.  Winter seems, now, like a distant dream, and we are forward-looking and thinking, but could it be?  Could the baton…

I have decided to forgive March.  Just last weekend, she mercilessly stole an hour of sleep from me.  I don’t take kindly to such behavior and have cursed March like no other month, save for August, but she has atoned…