Here in Minneapolis we careened from winter into spring seemingly overnight this past week. Mountains of tired old snow still huddle in parking lots, saggy patches of it lie desolate and defeated in our yards, matted carpets of dead, yellow-brown …
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spring forth, Spring!!
Despite the fact that the calendar claims Spring arrived a couple of weeks ago, here in Minnesota we still have snow on the ground and the air has a decided nip to it. In fact, some parts of our lovely …
the silver lining…five positive spins on rain
Rain has perhaps a tarnished reputation of late with the devastating hurricanes and floods across the globe. Images of rainfall have been connected with misery. Today’s rain-soaked books are saturated with jubilation, imagination, humor, tenderness. I think they’ll put a …
we’re March-ing into Spring!…five books to greet the milder weather
Here in Minnesota, we’ve spent the past week glorying in the abrupt arrival of Spring. One minute we were scraping ice off our windshields and the next finds us biking around the lakes in our shorts. Normally March in Minnesota …
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a list of…five books swimming with summer-ness!
We are smack in the midst of summer here with hot, popsicle days strung one after another. Among other things, summer means…gardens, rainy days, fairs, family reunions and days at the ocean. At least, those are the five subjects of our picture …
orange marmalade 