Month: August 2024

Sue and I hadn’t walked more than a couple neighbors’ yards from her house this morning, when we came upon a nice-sized euonymus bush in a plastic pot on someone’s lawn extension.  Sue said she’d go get her car and collect the euonymus for her daughter.  Sue had already talked to Angela, who’d put the… Continue reading Bush Procession

The lights flickered at church before the service began, last Sunday.  They don’t usually flicker.  They flickered again some minutes later, and flickered periodically as the service progressed.  I cannot have been alone in thinking, Oh, no; this may be expensive to fix.  Our building dates back to 1868; any repair is likely to be… Continue reading Breakfast and Basking

     This morning, as the dog and I were walking, the expected rain arrived.  We were prepared for it, Rascal with his thick coat and I with an umbrella.  The rain on the leaves was the only sound at the time, a quiet shhhhh.  It was a gentle rain, whose edges move in and wrap… Continue reading The Sounds of Rain

     Janice and I went to the Great Pages Circus this Wednesday.  We bought tickets online and showed up at the Washtenaw County fairground, only to find no sign of a big top.  Given the near-perfect flatness of the fairground, if there had been a circus tent there, we would have seen it.  We parked… Continue reading Circus

As Sue and I started up the path by the Huron River today, we could see that the Cascades section of the river was full of activity.  Canoers, kayakers, and tubers, as well as little guys with just lifejackets for flotation assistance were everywhere and so excited.       “It looks like an outing,” Sue said,… Continue reading Turnovers