Summer Daze August this year in Minneapolis is filled with full on hot summer days —steamy, warm, and hazy with smoke from fires far away. Breathing becomes an effort and the sun is often obscured by the haze in the air. The ample rains of this summer have resulted in Read more…
I went in search of the last vivid colors of autumn at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum earlier this week and was not disappointed. The trees are still singing their ode to fall. There is still color to be found though it is ephemeral and fading. Although most of the trees Read more…
Mary Oliver — Soulful Poet Sharing one of my favorite poems with you today: The Summer Day Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who Read more…
Fall Song Another year gone, leaving everywhere its rich spiced residues: vines, leaves, the uneaten fruits crumbling damply in the shadows, unmattering back from the particular island of this summer, this NOW, that now is nowhere except underfoot, moldering in that black subterranean castle of unobservable mysteries – – -roots Read more…