Like Three Seasons at Once
I appreciate a tri-tone leaf green, yellow and red all on one like I relish in a tri-tone street like I savor a tri-tone state of mind. Our block this week seem...
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Partly Cloudy with Scattered Leaf Showers
we climb the hill to roll back down it we climb again to sit on it Linus hops rock to rock talking about bugs and prying caps off acorns to “help the squi...
I Watched a Leaf Fall 170 Feet
The gorge is dim and cool. Where moss does not cover the walls, wet rocks glisten. The roar of the waterfalls grows louder until our route suddenly flanges out-...
One Thousand Gifts IV
I have been reading a borrowed copy of The Valley of Vision, a collection or Puritan prayers and devotions from John Bunyan to Charles Spurgeon. I recently read...
Reaching for Hot Cocoa; Holding Lemonade
September is indecisive. Yesterday talked like fall; today is acting summer. The sun is warm; the air cool. This soft green green grass feels cold through my je...
Autumn Dear
Good morning, Autumn. This week, nights have progressed from air conditioned to windows open to windows shut. This morning the wood floor was cold beneath my f...
The Beauty and the Might
I look up from the full table, beyond the long white porch of Lauren’s rental cottage, at the changes on the lake. Before breakfast, savory crepes: eggs, ...
A Matter of Life and Death
There’s something about gentle nourishing rain in a graveyard on a summer day. Especially this lush hillside 19th century cemetery. Ancient hemlock trees, mos...
3 Thousand Different Kinds of Beautiful
1) Sunlight on water can be a thousand different kinds of beautiful. Even over the same body of water, this East Texas lake for instance, every morning sky ref...
Buttricks, Buttresses and Back Roads: Entering Prayer Quiet & Confident
Does King’s College Chapel’s ceiling remind you of winter treetops on an unbending back road? Around here, where winter is long and tree-vaulted roa...
20 Minute Escape
“Heather, I’m home. Oh, I forgot to return the library books. I’ll go back.” “No. I’ll go,” I snatched the keys from Chris’ hand mid stride. I love my childr...
We are moving and I feel…
Coffee and watching petals fall with morning rain from courtyard tree.Sound, comforting.Site, lovely.Sentiment, sad but hopeful. In a few hours, our tree will n...
Crepes in Quebec in Autumn
Warm nutella in a delicate crepe leaves little to be desired. Especially when eaten in a 17th century structure next door to the Chateau Frontenac in the forti...
Simple Pleasures
I had $4.03 to spend at the Rutgers University farmers market. I tasted some sausage and some wine and a butter-toasted pecan then spent what I had: Spinach tu...
One Thousand Gifts III
In January and March, I posted lists of little things I am thankful for as Ann Voskamp did in her best selling book, “One Thousand Gifts.” See the r...
A Little Fall of Rain
Rain drops falling few, fat and loud. Circles growing on the puddles. Afternoon sun shining yellow. May-green leaves like stained glass wet glow. Their shadows ...
One Thousand Gifts II
In January, I posted a list of little things I am thankful for as Ann Voskamp did in her best selling book, “One Thousand Gifts” I promised to add t...
“One Thousand Gifts”
is a suiting title for Ann Voskamp’s biographical book. She recounts her struggle with viewing God as ungracious and her mission to change her perception by li...
The Autumn Post
Nov. 10- Were I not ever picking leaves out of my 5-week-old’s carriage, he’d be camouflaged within 10 minutes. We picked a perfect day to go ...
Pumpkin Bellied
At Battleview Orchard in NJ two weeks before our first was born. Thanks, Troy, for the pictures!
Anticipating Summer’s Pending Ending
The crisp clean cold of winter cannot be replicated by an air conditioning unit. Nor can the toasty warmth and smell of a furnace imitate summer heat. We ...
Take a Guess at Where I am Standing.
I look up from my food stand burrito to see bright yellow river taxis, jet skiers playing in the wake of the brighter orange Staten Island ferry, crazy kayakers...
…but I can’t say I like it.
Two of my favorite sites are leaves falling in late autumn and blossom petals falling in late spring. (I also enjoy watching rain fall and snow fall, but those ...
“Tut tut it looks like rain.”
When I open the shades on both the living room window and the breakfast room patio door, one can see straight through our apartment. And when I open the glass o...
NYC with dear friends
Last year we had a reunion in Maine, where I lived at the time: http://heatherpaiges.blogspot.com/2010/02/lovely-friends.html. This year we selected NYC, so I w...
Alice Austen’s House
It looks like a doll house- with carpentry like lace lining its dormers and gables, diamond-pained glass, and stout chimney- sitting in the grass where an 8 yea...
“Ba ba black sheep, have you any wool?”
“Yes sir, yes sir, 8 bags full!” Remember the unsheared sheep at the orchard last week? Well, I called to inquire about the price of their wool and ...
Renewed. Historic. Serene.
I wrote of my visit to Princeton and its local orchard last fall, but O, let me talk now of spring! Finally, after a long snowy winter, the foliage is again thi...
Blooms Like Christmas Lights
Do you remember December car rides after dinner to view Christmas lights? After work today, when I drove around Tottenville looking at blossoming trees I was re...