Share Your World 8th April 2024 Time moves really fast, but this year I never seem to have time to grab a moment and hold it before it’s gone. I was 65 and now I’m 77 and where did the time… Read More ›
Weather
LAST TWO ON THE CARDS
From a little while in the past. RJP I think we — as a family — took more pictures during the past three or four days than we took the entire rest of the month. The huge blizzard that hit us… Read More ›
BIRDS IN THE STORM
A few pictures from a past storm. RJP It’s hard not to feel sorry for the wild things that have to live through a winter hurricane. I’m not silly enough to try to gather them together to keep them warm and… Read More ›
LOVE IT, HATE IT – IT’S WINTER IN NEW ENGLAND
It’s romantic, or so “they” say. I mean, those same folks write songs about it. Orchestral pieces. In your open carriage dashing through the snow — and freezing your butt off because, hey folks, it’s cold out there! I went… Read More ›
BABY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE!
My Top 10 Cold Weather Songs, by Rich Paschall If you live in the northern half of the nation you have probably brought out your sweaters and sweatshirts, blankets, and shawls. You may even have your winter coats, hats, scarves,… Read More ›
COLD, VERY COLD AND POLAR VORTEX
Hibernation, by Rich Paschall It’s that time of year. If you live just about anywhere in the country, you know what I mean. It is just too cold to go anywhere. I have stayed in the house for more than… Read More ›
IT’S RAINING, IT’S POURING …
Today we are getting our little piece of Hurricane (or probably, by now, tropical depression) Ophelia. I feel that we should also be having a Hamlet, but they aren’t nearly that poetic at weather central. It was raining when I… Read More ›
SPRING INTO FALL
It Feels Like Football, Rich Paschall We have passed the Autumnal Equinox again, which signals the beginning of Fall in the Northern Hemisphere. Some want to think of it as the last gasp of summer. I prefer to look at… Read More ›
CLIMATE CHANGES ARE HERE. NOW.
It’s hot. Not only is it hot here, it’s hot everywhere including normally cool places like London and many European countries. Looking at a weather map, it looked like the world is boiling over. Probably a reasonably accurate description of… Read More ›
SMOKE ON THE WATER
A Fire In The Sky, by Rich Paschall When word of the Canadian wildfire smoke in Boston and other parts of the East reached us last week, we thought it a bit surprising. That smoke surely would have dissipated when… Read More ›
STORM AND FLOWERS
FOTD – June 28 – Daylilies and the last of the Catalpa flowers At two in the morning, the house shook. It sounded like a plane had broken the sound barrier. One roll of thunder was followed by another. It must… Read More ›
RAINY DAY
We need the rain. These days, we always need rain. We get a lot of little rains but they aren’t enough. We need this kind of rain, a good all-day soaker. This is the rain that fills the wells and… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 