“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.” ~ John Muir, Scottish- American […]
“For this was Saint Valentine’s Day, when every bird cometh there to choose his mate.” 1382, Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet & writer Historian Jack B. Oruch finds this the first literary reference to Valentine’s Day and romance and concludes that Geoffrey Chaucer is probably the original mythmaker. As the calendar shows, there remain five more […]
“I don’t know, I don’t feel right unless I’ve got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel is always linked to the lay of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even.” ~ Haruki Murakami, Japanese author, novelist & translator […]
“There it is, fog, atmosphere moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking in both.” ~ Hal Borland, American author, journalist and naturalist Weather-wise, we are stuck in a “winter dry spell.” This term, coined by some meteorologist, refers to a time period lasting about 20 days in […]
I saw a snail, On the garden gate. Moving so slow, Oblivious of fate. He inched along, And took his time. Said not a word, Like some tiny mime. He knew he’d make it, Soon enough. Sure as the clouds, Float up above. ~ Snail on the Garden Gate by Juan Olivarez Where did all […]
“The birds, the moon and the clouds have an important mission: to make mankind turn their eyes towards the skies! And so man can leave his own little local world and focus on something bigger – the universe!” ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish playwright and novelist If all went as predicted – a change in […]
“Californians are fickle. When we have rain we complain, and when we don’t have rain we complain.” ~ Bill Patzert, former climatologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory I guess I’m an anomaly to Bill’s surmise of Californians. Give me rain, any time, the more the better … barring when I’m driving on a […]
“There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance.” ~ William Sharp, Scottish writer, 18550-1905 Happy New Year! Winter […]
“Time, the years, the seasons, the dreaming and the hopes which throb with life even under the ice and snow… Year builds upon year, even as the seasons follow. And year’s end is no end at all, but only a pause, a time for the deep breath that marks the next step forward. There is […]
“There’s a certain magic that comes with the very first snow. For when the first snow is also a Christmas snow, well, something wonderful is bound to happen.” ~ Frosty the Snowman A “White Christmas” may be more than a Hollywood dream for us based on forecasts from the National Weather Service. Snow levels […]