Tag: Common Ground
Common Ground – September 2023
“…spring is gone, and summer cannot last.” May Riley At the risk of sounding like something that should be embroidered on a pillow, it seems to me that all time spent in the late…
Common Ground – August 2023
“The rain that makes things new…”. John Masefield We have been blessed with a lot of rain so far this summer. It seems that every time I empty the rain gauge in the garden…
Common Ground – July 2023
“Do what we can, summer will have its flies. If we walk in the woods, we must feed the mosquitoes.” Emerson My friend the Wind Chime Hater is convinced that the mosquitoes are bigger…
Common Ground – June 2023
“Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.” Walt Whitman A passing walker asked me if I wasn’t depressed to be deadheading the last of spring’s daffodils. I replied that this…
Common Ground – May 2023
“May, with alle thy floures and thy grene, Welcome be thou, fair fresshe May.” – Chaucer Back in the depths of winter I was asked, probably rhetorically, why we live here. I will answer…
Common Ground – April 2023
“The drama of spring is not always very well staged…. too often it proceeds jerkily, with the halts and repetitions of a rehearsal instead of the sustained rhythm of a finished performance.” Jason Hill…
Common Ground – March 2023
Tossing his mane of snows in wildest eddies and tangles, Lion-like March cometh in, hoarse, with tempestuous breath William Dean Howells The tops of the first bulbs of the year, species crocus and Iris…
Common Ground – February 2023
“Ah, shall winter mend your case Set your teeth the wind to face Beat the snow down, tread the frost All is gained when all is lost.” William Morris The days are finally getting…
Common Ground – December 2022
“So when some dear joy loses Its beauteous summer glow Think how the roots of roses Are kept alive in the snow” Alice Cary Snow we certainly did have in a freak snowstorm towards…