Messages

     “Midsummer is a field of Queen Anne’s-lace spiked with the blue of chicory,” declares Barbara Pond in her 1974 book, A Sampler of Wayside Herbs.  My all-time-favorite boss made me a gift of the book, lo these many years ago, explaining that that combination of wildflowers, which graces the book’s cover, was his favorite. … Continue reading Messages

Eighty-Three Degrees

Eighty-three degrees.  We are not yet halfway through April, and the temperature this afternoon is eighty-three degrees.  Dave Rexroth, chief meteorologist for Channel 7 Action News, says we may get snow next week, but today we have eighty-three degrees.      The weather is prompting odd behaviors.  This morning, for instance, I saw a man putting… Continue reading Eighty-Three Degrees