APLACECALLEDMERRYMOUNT

There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again. He says that...

A near-infrared light image made by the James Webb Space Telescope of actively forming stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, displayed an...

Labor Day has arrived, and the symbolic "end of the summer season" is present in our psyches inducing memories past and present. Enter...

A sunflower from 2023 reaching toward the sky Sunflower by Christopher Ries, a permanent installation at the Columbus Museum of Art A...

The earth was green, the sky was blue: I saw and heard one sunny morn A skylark hang between the two, A singing speck above the corn; A...

Midsummer offers much for the eyes and ears. Let's consider phlox and katydids. Phlox in the courtyard at Merry Mount Phlox are of a...

Green Monster? a. A sci-fi horror movie about creeping green algae that overtakes the planet due to climate change? No. b. A Jurassic...

The proverb, “Time flies when you’re having fun”, describes how I feel about the past decade at Merry Mount. Words can’t begin to...

Dressed in Pink? Barbie? A tacky cottage in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts? Or maybe you have seen Margot Robbie on the giant screen...

Cut and paste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT5VOnaGRSU CPW

A common phone conversation goes something like: “…your address?” “6090 Junk Road, Mount Sterling, OH, 43143” “Did you say Junk Road?”...

One of the great joys of summer at Merry Mount is watching the swallows glide across the pasture as we mow on the zero-turn, as we sit...

In the next few days, one is likely to see/hear fireworks in celebration of Independence Day-the 4th of July. Let’s have a celebratory,...

a photograph taken inside looking out inside out: -in such a manner that the inner surface becomes the outer -to a thorough degree -in or...

Britannica lists coyote as: Species (Canis latrans) of canine found in North and Central America. Its range extends from Alaska and...

Wake- verb (used with object), waked or woke [wohk], waked or wok·en [woh-kuhn], wak·ing. Woke- aware of and actively attentive to...

“Holy shit!” is an expletive I could use quite often these days in regard to surprise about events in the news, but instead I will take...

It is an intensely simple, intensely floral, flower. All silk and flame, a scarlet cup…like a burning coal fallen from Heaven’s altars....

Ispahan is a damask rose that was introduced in 1832. It produces very full old-fashioned pink flowers with dark pink centers in...

On this Mother’s Day, many of us while honoring our mothers, will experience a sentimental moment when we recall special memories about...