Where do you go when you’ve reached the top? The picture illustrating this posting shows what my vine in the container garden did when it reached the top. It climbed up the porch support and bumped its leafy head on the porch ceiling. Trying to be helpful, I tied a nice, soft string from one […]
Sep 23, 2013
Monday Morning Meanderings
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This morning my thoughts are like the leaves that are beginning to fall here and there in my yard: one thought here, two or three over there, and when a wind blows through, scattering them in all different directions. It is dark this morning, of course, because I’ve gotten up before the sun yet again […]
Sep 22, 2013
Retreat to Refresh
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Friday I was privileged to attend my friend Fran’s Women’s Retreat, a few hours of food, fellowships, and Bible study. Her theme for this session was : The Bitter Root of Resentment. I learned a few things!! Don’t you enjoy a revelation or a new thought when it comes zinging into your mind? I do. […]
Sep 21, 2013
Moonlight Can Be Murder
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Darcy slipped from one tree to the next, hoping that her flight was undetected. She held her breath and listened, straining to hear above the hammering of her heart. Was that the sound of a foot crunching dead leaves? Did the noise come from her left or her right? She did not know which way […]
Sep 20, 2013
Rain at Night
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A soft rumble woke me some time during the night. No, it wasn’t the roar of tens of thousands of motorcycles in Fayetteville’s Bikes, Blues, and BBQ shindig although I went to sleep with that sound in my ears. Neither was it the soft snore of a sleeping giant somewhere overhead. It was thunder! And this morning, […]
Sep 19, 2013
A Tale of a Tail
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There are tails and then there are other tails. A few days ago, I looked out my front room window on the world and saw a strange sight. Plenty of squirrels live in the neighborhood and seeing them is not uncommon; not seeing them would be uncommon because those cute little pesky rodents are all over the […]
