Help! Persephone, I Need You.

February 3, 2022

Chilled, drizzling rain

washes snow off

every branch and twig

of every tree. 

Mud-splashed snow heaps

by driveways

and gray, snow-levees

along plowed streets

will dissolve entirely

from the land.

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February 8, 2022

At the Weather Desk: Recent calls to interview the Goddes of Winter went unanswered. But we did record her answer service message...

            "Can't you see I'm busy!!! You have a window? Open it!"

Well, we have the groundhog report to go on. Six more weeks with the Goddess of Winter. 

Hmmm. It's all foggy and dark out my window.

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Toby is napping somewhere up among the hay bales in the barn.

So, I spring-cleaned.

Persephone, where are you???

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Now, from the Arts Desk: We are happy to have the 11th installment of Paula's nearly year-long project inspired by daily observations while in her Tucson backyard then translated into their colors...

...and we look forward to seeing her project's conclusion when January 2022 is ready.

And in Missouri, sister Jeanenne got her watercolors out this week and shared her renderings. We're hoping for more of these from her...

Over in Cincinnati, Aidan finds time now and then to make something on his iPad with Procreate which he shares with us...

Not too long ago, Kingston shared a drawing with us, too...

Thank you, Paula, Jeanenne, Aidan, and Kingston for your contributions! We love every one of them.