Echo From the Hills

The thunderstorms keep coming, the grass keeps growing, the garden is saturated, and still it rains. Some of the vegetables...

June’s blue moon shone last night, although at 5 o’clock this morning it was full and orange. Matthew called me...

Hot summer has exploded in our hills with the force of a Fourth of July firecracker, with hot days and...

Summertime weather simmers along as daisies bloom and leaves grow green and full on the trees. The hills surround and...

It has been 63 years ago, on this day, that I graduated from high school. The viney honeysuckle is climbing...

Spring seems to have evolved into summer-like days, with temperatures growing warmer, and blossoming beauty everywhere. The rains of May...

APRIL’S GLORY April has come to our Clay County Hills, Bringing wildflowers and bright daffodils Dandelions like gold polka dots...

The sun peeped up over Pilot Knob this morning, but was soon obscured by clouds that covered the sky.  The...

The robins are back.  They are spread all over the muddy lawn, with their tiny heads bobbing in queer, jerky...

It is Valentine’s Day, and boxes of candy, sweet valentines and gifts of all sorts are being exchanged back and...