Saturday, I made my first trip to Natural Falls across the state line in Oklahoma. It is a wonderful, scenic area that abounds in the kind of beauty only God could create. As Richard, Linda and I drove into the park,we saw no clue that just beyond a grove of trees lay another facet of nature. On the surface, […]
Aug 26, 2014
Dragonfly Days
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I’ve been noticing a dragonfly in my front yard as I water plants. To me, that’s a sign of summer ending. In Minnesota, where Tracy and Carlene, my brother and sister-in-law, live, dragonflies come out much earlier in the spring. Years ago, when my husband, son and I lived at Manos Meadows, I would look out […]
Aug 25, 2014
Echoes, Images, Rambling Reflections
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A dictionary definition of reflection is “a thought or writing about something, particularly in the past, or what one sees when looking into a body of water.” I’d like to add that reflections can be what others see in our eyes or hear in our voices, or see in our actions. My granddaughter is, in many ways, […]
Aug 24, 2014
A Page from the Past
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Most distances are counted in miles but the trip I took yesterday was not in miles but it was backward in years; well over a hundred of them. Richard and Linda asked me to accompany them to a scenic spot over in the great state of Oklahoma. I’d like to tell you a little about it. The […]
Aug 23, 2014
Coffee Nerves
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Yesterday, I drank too much caffeine, and I’ve learned my lesson! Let me start from the beginning. You see, it happened this way: I usually mix my coffee, with l/3 decafe and 2/3 caffeinated.But I’ve noticed that lately I don’t snap to attention as quickly as I would like when I awake each morning, and I figured additional caffeine would […]
Aug 22, 2014
Shivers and Shadows
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Sunshine and shadow, good and evil, action and inaction, cold and warmth; life is full of contrasts and so are mysteries. Sometimes, I like to try my hand at painting pictures. Subtle shading, use of dark colors, highlighting, all make a painting interesting and give it depth. Writers use the same techniques. In the following […]
