A chorus of robins greets the pre-dawn. I mean, a veritable flock! Maybe a family and their whole bunch of friends and relatives. I wondered if a group of robins has a specific name. For example, geese in flight are a skein, whereas, on the ground they are a gaggle. A bunch of crows is […]
Jul 17, 2014
A Little Bird Taught Me
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When robins travel on the ground, they mostly do so in little runs, then stop to locate a worm. The robin I saw yesterday trilled across the ground, chest puffed out, head up. He wasn’t listening for a worm, he felt good and he was strutting! It didn’t take much to fill that bird with […]
Jul 16, 2014
Wednesday Wanderings
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According to Weatherbug.com, the temperature is 55.3 degrees this morning! This is wonderful. The day is starting off to be as lovely as yesterday, and that was, weatherwise, an unbeatable, cool, sunny day. The marvelous thing is this isn’t April nor October, but July. Yesterday was a perfect day to work outside, so I did. My herb […]
Jul 15, 2014
A Whisper in the Wind
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My dear cousin Brian sent me copies of articles he had found which first appeared in a Tahlequah newspaper in 1913. What treasures! News from county communities included quite a few items from Etta. At that time, my mother was seven years old. It was a glimpse into life a hundred years ago. A hundred […]
Jul 14, 2014
More Monday Morning Meanderings
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This morning, we’ve had a spot of rain. Trees are dark and motionless, waiting for more. So am I. And, the weather forecast is for cooler weather. This is quite a nice summer. All the lawns are still green, not by virtue of homeowners watering but from the rain. Today, I am very grateful for […]
Jul 13, 2014
Just Close Your Eyes, You Are There
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Imagination is a wonderful thing. It can take you any place you want to go. Sometimes, just as a sort of mini-vacation, I close my eyes and zip back a hundred years to Etta, Cherokee County, Oklahoma. The place I go is my grandparents’ farm. It is Sunday morning, July 13, 1914. Levi and Edna […]
