Showing posts with label end of summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label end of summer. Show all posts
Thursday, August 23, 2018

The High Sign

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Final days of August, the dog days, are always hot, humid and unnerving -- what, summer is almost over? I lie low, work as little as pos...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

An "End of Summer" Essay

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The Summer of 2015 began with me exhausted and bedraggled, burnt out to the core, and spiritually dead. I teach year-round but took this s...
Saturday, August 23, 2014

Just Another August Morning

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Just another day. . .the usual hassles and b.s.. . .just another day. . .I bought $60 worth of poetry books this week, I must be crazy. . ...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Why We Should Protect Missouri Streams

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Taken at the "beachfront" of a LaBarque Creek tributary with no official name, sometimes called "Sandy Creek" or ...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Fall's Finale

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The last face of fall wildflowers here on the property: the marvelous Blue Aster. On every walk I see fewer and fewer. I love the way they...
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Sunday, August 14, 2011

An Old Watermelon Joke

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Was a watermelon farmer from Kennett, MO, whose crop got ripe and every day he found a big fat juicy melon missing from his garden. He put u...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Cloudburst

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On an August afternoon, when it'd been over 90 degrees every day for a solid month, and was pushing 100, it rained for a solid fifteen m...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

August Cornfield

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The ears ripen in late summer And come on with a conquering laughter, Come on with a high and conquering laughter. The long-tailed blackbird...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

I Preserve Stuff

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Your mom, my mom, sweating in the kitchen in August, boiling jelly and jars -- I was allergic to doing canning myself. But then there's ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Family Vacation

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Except for the guide at the far left, this is one family, all redheads except for mom, visiting the Lewis & Clark memorial at 150 feet a...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

Late Summer Blues

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Sorry to see this beautiful summer go -- along with my hummingbirds, who left Sept. 12 -- I am looking for beauty wherever I can -- in this ...
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