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It is about -20 Celsius right now outside (-7 farenheight) …the kind of weather no one should be walking around in…unless you’re wearing enough padding that you resemble a Panda bear. but it wasn’t like that about six hours ago, … Continue reading
Five Below and a Vortex of Snow
The snowfall is dancing around outside my window, a nice break from the killer Polar Vortex that came- with teeth a thousand miles wide and breath like Frosty the Snowman. It is scheduled to make an appearance again tonight, like … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Photography, Weather
Tagged home, Life, photography, Polar Vortex, snow, weather, Winter
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it’s downright fierce out there today
It’s nice we’re having weather….’twould be a shame if we weren’t…. it is downright fierce out there today. not the kind of fierce that makes a grown man wet his pants. no, it is a cold no kitty could stand…a … Continue reading
A Day At The Fair: 8/11/2013
This is what I saw at the fair today, in between spurts of lashing rain…
Posted in Culture, Life, Men, Music, Photography, Weather, Women
Tagged Appalachia, culture, dancing, fairs, Life, music, nature, tourism, videos, West Virginia
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I am being restored
The fog was so thick, I couldn’t see the white line. But that line meant the difference between the road and a rock-spiked mountain side. So, I strained. I lurched forward. All in an effort to see. And when the … Continue reading
Posted in catholicism, Christianity, Culture, Dreams/Goals, Food, Health, Life, Men, Travel, Uncategorized, Weather, Women
Tagged Appaalchian Mountains, breakfast, Dairy Queen, dangerous roads, driving, fog, meaning of life, morning, Mountains, prayer, purpose, restoration, roads, small towns, travel, West Virginia
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The Lone Dandelion
Saturday, as I hiked and climbed among my father’s kingdom, I discovered a lone flower, as the light from a fading afternoon slipped away from the tangled flora of the Laurel Creek Valley. Now, the snow covers it and most … Continue reading
Posted in Dreams/Goals, Hobbits, Life, Relationships, Uncategorized, Weather
Tagged flora, flowers, God, Life, love, meaning of life, purpose, relationships, snow, Spring, weather
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Yawning in place
Snow- the ever-present, the all consuming, the wintry one- refuses to leave my doorstep. Here I labor another hour to keep awake, yawning in place, drugged by the power of dim lights and dark days. Sleep is a tenderhearted woman, … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Life, Relationships, Weather
Tagged cold, health, Life, relationships, sleepiness, warmth, weather, Winter, yawning
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Dreaming of a Road Trip
It’s that time of year, deep-buried by the snow, I glance at my map, and plan where to go… I have a map in one hand, a cold glass of ginger beer in another. It’s about 14 degrees (farenheight- however … Continue reading
the lonely snow
the lonely snow has no visitors now- she sits along the trail refusing to change. she’s colder than her cousins but doesn’t seem to mind- til bugs and bees and butterflies wake and crawl among the trees, drunk from their … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Poetry, Relationships, Uncategorized, Weather
Tagged backpacking, country, forest, free verse, hiking, Mountains, poetry, relationships, snow, trail, trees, Winter
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A taste of ocean weather
It feels like a day to drive to the beach- the sun is high and bright, temperatures rising, and the remnants of winter’s blanket disappearing into the ground along the railroad tracks. I am dreaming of ocean beaches, rather than … Continue reading
Posted in Dreams/Goals, Life, the beach, the ocean, Weather
Tagged America, Atlantic Ocean, beach, daydreaming, health, ocean, poetic prose, summer, Winter
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