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“How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” ~John Burroughs Yesterday was summer. Felt like summer. Today is autumn. A chilly day with rain all day long. Sweater weather even while walking. Perhaps not if the clouds hadn’t been hiding the sun, but the temperature struggled to inch past 60 degrees after …
September 25, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill. Well, actually from Holly County. It’s Sunday and I’m spending the day out on Miss Sally’s farm. It’s great out here on the farm. Quiet. Nobody fussing about anything. Miss Sally said she needed to take a nap and I’d have to entertain myself. I think she just said that because …
“With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.” ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox Are you tired of seed mysteries yet? When I walked this afternoon, I kept seeing more and more seeds. I could keep this up for another month of two, but I won’t. The giveaway contest ends on October 31. Then I’ll draw …
October 21, 1964 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Holly County, Kentucky. Don’t you just love it when the leaves start turning? It makes me just want to start walking through the ones that have already fallen so I can hear that rustling sound. Hard to sneak up on anybody that way. We had this nature person who came and talked …
Did you ever play with a June bug? That’s the bug in the photo. On a walk several weeks ago, the June bugs were swarming along the path I took. Just in one area. I’m on first name basis with this bug and have never really been afraid of it even though it has a hard outer shell and can …