Awakening Springtime’s breath is in the breezes, Stirring blossoms as it teases Roses into sharing their perfume. Gently warming, softly shaking Sleeping flowers into waking, Breathing springtime into every drowsy bloom. […]
Homemade Fun
I am really over-eager for spring to get here; remembering warmer, long ago days when I was a girl in the country. When I was a child, we had chores to do but we also had time for fun. All my younger brother and I needed were active imaginations and we had that a-plenty. […]
Things That Go Hoot in the Night
Neighborhood Owl “There’s an owl in the neighborhood. I heard him late last night When the wind was wild and restless and the moon was round and white. I hurried to my window but nothing I could see Showed anyone in all the town had wakened–only me. Owls live in the forest where trees are dark […]
Springtime or Winter?
Changeable March Unbridled, unsaddled, unfettered, and free, Thundering through the sky, Shaking and waking each slumbering tree, March comes galloping by. One moment stormy; the next moment, still, Basking in morning sun; Fractious, then gentle, he changes until Spring has truly begun. […]

A Tribute to Chappo
On my Facebook page this morning, I commented that I’m more at home riding a horse than using a computer. A cousin friend agreed. That started me thinking about the beauty of horses and how the memory of one particular horse will always be with me. When I was a girl, we lived at the […]
Music and Life
Someone once said, I don’t care who writes the laws if you will let me write the songs. This alludes to the tremendous influence music has in our lives. It is all around us in its many different genres. It has certainly influenced my life as I’m sure it has the lives of countless others. […]
