Echo From the Hills

It is amazing how a split second occurrence can alter a person’s life. Two days before Christmas, I was looking...

 A half-hearted sun is trying to break through the clouds today and shine upon ground that is encrusted with snow....

The sun is shining brightly upon the hills today, while a soft wind blows warm breezes across the land. There...

Snowflakes are drifting down, softly and lazily, on this day before Thanksgiving. The trees are frosted white, with the hemlocks...

The brownness of November is enveloping our hills, with brown fields and meadows, and brown leaves scattered on the forest...

The first snow of the season came in the night this week and we awakened to a white world. The...

A cloud shadow passes over Pilot Knob, muting the still colorful leaves. The sky is intensely blue, with puffy white...

The little hobgoblins and miniature witches are gone for the year, still reveling in their booty and some nursing a...

There was a glistening sheet of frost on the front lawn when we got up a few mornings ago. The...

We are wrapping up the tag ends of summer, hurrying to finish warm weather tasks, getting ready for the colder...