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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...

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...

In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash’d palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of...

Daffodils and Dandelions! How wonderfully creative Mother Nature is and how delightfully diverse. Spring brings a gradual greening of the great carpet at Merry Mount and a welcoming sight is the first burst of yellow from the daffodils. Fair Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have shor

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin It is tax time again. I have avoided...

Bugs: “Well it is Easter again, and time to hide the eggs. I had better climb from my hole and head to Hershey, PA. Hey Doc, who should...

[Jack] Russell Terriers are confident and athletic spitfires, originally bred for fox hunting in England. [JRTs] are small with a mostly...

Momentary Flame Dawn's fire, Feelings aspire. Snow fleeting, Winter retreating? CPW Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire,...

The March equinox – also called the vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere – marks the beginning of the spring season in the Northern...

A Man Young And Old: 10. His Wildness O bid me mount and sail up there Amid the cloudy wrack, For Peg and Meg and Paris' love That had so...

Today, as we once again change our clocks to “Spring Forward”, we take a broader look at “March Madness”, not only the College Basketball...

For most of us, everyday circumstances are set in a framework of a twenty-four hour day. We awaken and are thrust into a set agenda for...

2/19/23 A Salute to George Washington on President’s Day! In Amor Towles’ first novel, Rules of Civility, the author references a...

2/12/23 February is heart month and the upcoming week should be filled with "matters of the heart", so I have gathered a few “mullings...