“Everything is blooming recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of night.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke Rain … I waited last weekend for its arrival after the National Weather Service predicted a 100% chance on Easter Sunday. Church and Easter egg hunts were long […]
“Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”… “It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…” ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, “The Secret Garden” Spring is coming… In just two weeks it will officially arrive. The weather seems a little confused. At the end of last week, […]
“Oh! The snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and earth below. …The town is alive and its heart aglow To welcome the coming of the beautiful snow.” J.W. Watson (1849-72 ) American poet The snow began to fall in downtown Montrose as this year’s Thanksgiving Day became a memory. With leftovers packed away, […]
“The preparations are what they are. We’re here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.” ~ Lieutenant General Russel Honore, Commander of Joint Task Force Katrina A week ago, Ralphs’ parking lot could have been mistaken for one along the Gulf States […]
“Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all, Flowers in the Summer Fires in the Fall!” – Robert Louis Stevenson The “fire” in this poem, no doubt, refers to a bonfire. In many parts of the country, people gather around one for its warmth and to celebrate autumn. We aren’t so fortunate in the […]
“So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of the lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees….” ~ John Muir That face … on the front […]
“You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, ‘I really like your tie.” ~ Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Safe conversation topic and a column in the Crescenta Valley Weekly. Is there a connection? Yes, the weather (what else could it […]
“If they’re headed somewhere and you try to stop them, they’ll look for another way … They’ll climb over, they’ll climb under, they’ll climb around. They keep looking for another way.” ~ ‘The Ant Philosophy’ by Jim Rohn As the last days of summer draw near, Labor Day arrives. An encore of the season. No […]
“The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.” ~Pierre de Coubentin, founder, International Olympic Committee, Organizer of 1896 Olympics in Athens Let the Games begin! And they did, under the dark ominous skies of London. But first, Queen Elizabeth needed to catch a ride to the games. She sat at her […]
“One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin.” ~ William Shakespeare Last Friday afternoon, driving home from Pasadena during the monsoonal thunderstorm, Shakespeare’s “One Touch of Nature” almost got the best of me. After reading the CV Weekly for the past two years, you have probably figured, besides summer evenings and Santa […]