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Turbulent Transitions
I stood on a hill in Dunoon, Scotland, in the middle of March many years ago. Powerful winds brought a succession of rain, sleet, snow, hail, and sunshine over and over again in the course of an hour –...
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Garden 11/11/11
This year, the garden seems to go on and on. Here is a little tour of flowers, fruit and foliage filling the garden on November 11. Even as the leaves fall, next year’s growth appears. More next...
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Second Wind
Second wind – restored energy or strength; renewed ability to continue in an effort ~ The Free Online Dictionary The rains came last night, the wind blew them in. When I went out at midnight with...
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Shadow and Light
Chiaroscuro – Italian for the play of shadow and light, most often referring to tonal relationships in visual art (Wikipedia) Walking through a garden or a forest is a much different experience than...
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September Song
Oh, it’s a long long while from May to December, But the days grow short when you reach September. ~lyrics by Maxwell Anderson, from September Song Those long summer evenings are gone, borne away on...
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The Year’s Last, Loveliest Smile
“Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.” ~WIlliam Cullen Bryant Autumn is officially here in the Northern Hemisphere. I’ve been busy lately filming nature’s habitats for my A Year in Penn’s Woods...
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Pink October
The crickets still sing in October. And lilly, she’s trying to bloom. Tho she’s resting her head on the shoulder of death, she still shines by the light of the moon. ~Kevin Dalton Overhead, the oak...
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Colors, Endless Colors
Autumn in leaves of gold, springtime a thousand shades of green unfold to summer with its joyous Joseph’s Coat of colors, endless colors, endless colors. ~from the song “Winter” by Lynn Emberg Purse...
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A New Season
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~Camus Somehow, summer slipped by without me and now that I’ve returned to the garden, I find myself in a new season, deep in autumn’s glory. The...
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Syzygy
Tonight the sky was clear and yesterday’s supermoon reappeared in full glory – the earth, moon, and sun are all in a line, creating a syzygy. I had never heard this term before my student Ryan Bromley...
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The Air Wild with Leaves
Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves ~Humbert Wolfe Last week, a misty morning turned the garden into a place of magic and mystery. A few days later, a wild wind carried winter...
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I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks As our world spins on its tilted axis through October, every...
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Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons. ~Jim Bishop Cold nights finally arrived this week and transformed the trees and shrubs around the garden and through the woods. Green...
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The slant of the autumn light is making for dramatic mornings in the garden. Sunlight sifts through the dark leaves of the oak and maple trees, reminding me that the autumn equinox is only a week away....
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October is the month for painted leaves . . . ~Thoreau While the garden is quietly collapsing back into the earth, the trees are a riot of color. Cold crisp nights dipping towards the freezing point...
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. ~John Burroughs The weeping cherry glows as the last bit of gold in the lower garden, an umbrella of light in the...
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot I have always loved autumn, with its cooler temperatures...
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The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. ~Arthur Rubinstein (unverified) Slowly, the leaves are beginning to don their autumn cloaks of gold and...
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