serendipitous

a quiet, uneventful halloween with no trick-or-treaters, save one - a cute little bee with striped tights and pipe cleaner antennae. since ...

h ere's the last saturday in october - with autumn foliage long since past its peak color, but still dazzling in spots, especially aga...

j ust in time for halloween, spooky mist rises over the river on the twilight ride home.

m ust political signs be this big ? do politicians think i can't see them littering the lanscape so they just made them larger? do they ...

e arly mor ning was again frosty and cold, with ice on the windshield and snow(!) pellets on the roof. all through the day i watched from wi...

o vernight, our first good frost, the kind that edges grasses and fallen leaves and makes the landscape look ethereal and sparkling white in...

w hat is it about fall that makes me so drastically alter the way i cook? here's the weekend's dinner, pot roast with carrots, that ...

f rom the first early morning rescue to tonight's thirty-third and final recovery, i've found myself today either blinking back tear...

t his is the color we wait for from early september on. this is as good as it gets. and it's just breathtaking.

o n 10-10-10, it's the perfect fall day in the perfect fall weekend. apple festivals and craft fairs, foliage and wood smoke, pumpkins f...

t here are moments when the sunshine and the north wind beckon, when the colors in the hills blind you to all that needs doing below, when y...

f or lots of reasons that seem much less important tonight, today was not my best day. and here is the homemade cookie (minus the bite) with...

t oday, october 2nd, the first day it's been chilly enough here to refer to the day as a typical fall one, i turn a corner in a large d...

t onight i went to a dinner meeting for a local association. at the end of the evening, there was a raffle for a brand new iPad. the winning...

t onight crawling up my window, i find this tiny frog, suction-ish feet firmly planted on the slick glass. if it's flies he's lookin...

o ther years i've missed it, this changing of the seasons. i've looked up from my work or i've sped around a corner and been jol...

t he full september moon, risen just after dusk. the harvest moon, it was called, since its radiance gave farmers extended hours of light to...

a small flower going to seed in front of the stone wall. what i didn't see was the insects marching up the stem. once again, the macro l...

p erhaps i just haven't had time to notice, but this is the first monarch butterfly i've seen this year. on this overcast, cool morn...

g lorious saturday weather inspired me not to go out, but to stay home and clean. streaming saturday morning radio and a whole pot of coffee...

i never print my photos. oh sure, i take my memory card to the drugstore and print off pictures of the little girl to send to the relatives...

o ne of the perks of babysitting overnight is breakfast pancakes made by the little girl, apron and all. one of the down sides, however, is...

f or a few days now, i've been trying to identify these berries, which are scattered all over the driveway at work. elderberry, i guesse...

n ext year, buy established morning glory plants and forget the frugal notion of starting them from seed. however easy they are to grow, it...

l abor day traditionally marks the end of summer here. as much as i look forward to autumn's blaze of color and the chill and coziness o...

f or reasons i won't go into, i need a large amount of shiny pennies. now, pennies i have - and lots of them. but they are old and worn...

there are morning people and there are night people and i am the latter. i love the quiet of night, the stars, the finality and feeling of a...

red leaves red tomatoes red holly now, red crabapples. september's here.

t oday is the anniversary of my parents' wedding sixty-three years ago. i miss them both and always will. this is my mother's weddin...

o ver the weekend, after a visit with relatives, i took a side trip through the small town where i grew up. it's still hard to believe i...

s itting in the window with a second cup of coffee, working here one last summer morning, i look out to see the holly berries, once glossy g...

m any years, there are no tomatoes at all. sometimes, there have been small disappointing green ones to pick just before the first frost of ...

i t's the last day of summer vacation. even the sky weeps. but secretly, i am filled with a sense of excitement and anticipation at the ...

a fter several years of fruitlessly planting the tiny seeds, finally i have a sunflower - and another one coming! i'm looking forward to...

a lovely extended weekend with friends comes to an end all too soon. it's been a quiet time of visiting, reminiscing, resting and regro...

t his place is so far north it has a very short growing season. yet some folks here have the most beautiful flowers and the most amazing veg...

b ird watching on the coast can be so calming. here gulls squawk and soar and drift on the air singly or in large flocks. they stand at atte...

m y final summertime hurrah, visiting a friend who lives on the coast in a northernmost part of new england. this is the view from her porch...

t his old green cardboard strip glued with dried leaves is a bookmark the girl made for me when she was very, very small. i treasure this cr...

o ver the weekend, i saw this in a cemetery. when my time finally comes, i'd love to leave behind words like this. words that make even ...

a lovely summer weekend spent with family at the beach just across the harbor from the city of boston. the lighthouse above is boston light...

o n most august days, i drive by this cornfield on the way to the local farm stand to buy the day's produce. sometimes it's tomatoes...

i have been quietly busy interacting with children's books these august days. it's solitary work and there's a certain rhythm t...

o h no! not yet! it's only august first and there's still another whole month of summer!