:: Mid-August beauty along Carr's Creek, Delaware County, New York :: August 31st, Lightspring Glen ::: Despite intentions otherwise to capture and share some August moments in writing before today, tomorrow we will welcome in September. The original draft of this piece began with a note that despite weeks of little rain, "the countryside still …
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Lunar Eclipse, May 15, 2022 :: Photo by Kopernik Observatory, Vestal, NY Late evening, Sunday, May 15th, just past 10:30......the gleaming orb of the enormous Scorpio Full Moon slowly begins to dim. Earth's shadow touches her lower corner starting the Eclipse's slow sensual slide over Grandmother Moon. Given the forecast of "mostly-cloudy", it felt a …
Presenting your Most-Radical Self-Love Coach, Mari L. McCarthy of CreateWriteNow Valentine's Day + 1, 2022 Hoping that your Valentine's Day brought you all sorts of things-of-the-heart! But if a generous dose of self-care and self-love wasn't among these, I'm delighted to offer this here! Today! The lovely woman with the beaming smile--my longtime friend & …
Dawn, 24 January 2022--View thru my patio door In the final months of 2021, disheartened by personal burdens and the larger world's chronic chaos, I welcomed the arrival of the dark time of the Earth's slow-cycling Wheel. Whether the outer or inner realms, it's a time that invites the release of things that no longer …
Maple buds, April morning 2021 By this time of early Spring--a little more than three weeks after the Vernal Equinox--the first rays of the morning Sun touch down in the backyard around 7:30. Situated on the gentle west slope of Richardson Hill, I can see the day's light arriving on the ridge a half mile …
Schermerhorn Family Farm, Rotterdam, New YorkSummer 1937 February, 2021 It was perhaps a month or so into 2020's sheltering-in-place life, that I began to take fresh notice of this particular family photo among the others in the corner of my living room. Living alone--something I most always enjoy, even savor--this new sort of isolation was …
As Autumn progressed in this singular year, apart from the ever-present presence of the Pandemic, what played through my mind and heart often was that on December 11th I would celebrate the 7th anniversary of coming to Lightspring Glen. It was on that day in 2013 that my wonderful realtor and friend, Barbara, accompanied me …
Two Owls and the Wild Geese 2013, late November -- I was excitedly counting down the days to my fated appointment with the folks at the National Bank of Delhi who would guide me through the legal process of becoming the new owner of these seven hillside acres of woods, streams, and ponds---and also a …
This west-sloping hillside on Richardson Hill has been my home for five years now. And with this fifth Spring, it is no less marvelous to once again witness the land at last shedding its somber Winter garb and slipping into the first tender greens. Its arrival at Lightspring Glen was decidedly sharp-edged this year. The …
Lightspring Glen Valentine's Day arrived as a bright and wintry one here at Lightspring Glen, my Heart home. This is a post long-pondered since the new year's beginning, and the first to finally appear for 2019. Lots of Life has happened since New Year's day, much of which proved challenging to translate into words for …
Golden Spiral Journey 