The smell of wood smoke rises from the old stone chimney of the Ramble In if my eyes are closed and my head held at a proper tilt. I can feel the thin Rocky Mountain air in my well-adapted young lungs and hear pine needle covered trails crunch under my feet as I scramble up, … Continue reading Ebenezer
Colorado
Trees of Life
To plant a tree is to begin a memory. I'm a big believer in the power of growing plants along with growing the family. A measure of a kid or two or three or four can be marked right along with the rings of a tree I've left here and there across our pathway. And … Continue reading Trees of Life
One Thread
Written in black sharpie on the back inside cover of my 8th grade yearbook is this: I have tears in my earsfrom lying on my back in my bedwhile I cry over you. Now if those words are not poetry I do not know what is. And ohhh, I loved the boy who wrote them. … Continue reading One Thread
Real Estate Bird
Right in the middle of writing a different blog post (a pretty dreary and potentially depressing one) I thought, "Hey, let's lighten things up a bit." We'll start with the basics. Parakeets can talk. And fly. Twelve-year old girls aren't always smart. But they mean well. The summer of 1974 was monumental. We, our giant … Continue reading Real Estate Bird
Beyond Lashley Lane 