Red Oak - Dec 2011

Coffee Muses From a Chilly Porch

It’s starting to feel like my time of the year. The trees are still mostly dressed in their summer finest, though with the wind gusts today, they won’t be for

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Falling Behind the Season

Falling Behind the Season – NYTimes.com

Every day I look around in disbelief, remembering how surprised I was when spring began. I’m still busy being surprised by spring. I’ll be ready for fall by February, always

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Google-Earth---Fred-First

Mid Week Rambles

Hummingbird Update It seems the cold front that blew through this past weekend was the signal most of the hummingbirds in the backyard were waiting for to head on south.

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Just A Quote…Or is it.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. – George Bernard Shaw The above quotation popped up in an email today and did just

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Inspiration In A Song

Video No Longer Available As individuals creating something we are limited by time, talent, energy and (sometimes) money. When we act collectively though, magic happens. via Building more than a

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The Trouble With Spring

It’s beautiful outside. It has been beautiful for a week or more. My thoughts keep turning to digging in the dirt… Planting things that are beautiful, things that taste good, things that attract

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