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ATTENTION CASUAL GARDNERS! Winter’s right around the corner, better trim those grape vines back. In the photo Hayden and I are trimming...

It’s white tonight in the mountains. The full moon shrouded In a glazed halo Lights the world about. There is peace and quite Tonight. We...

A full spread on the dinning room table, Extended out to twelve, With Mom in apron, my sister Ann, Aunts and uncles, and Uncle...

*photo by Matt Mead I stood and stared, And looked and stood. I gazed yon inland ocean, Stretching horizons far. How distant is, That...

Meet Kaitlin Ten! Actress, Singer, Producer. Don’t miss Kaitlin’s songs, Several of which she has so graciously allowed me to premier on...

Along the trail, A brook and he, There he be, Surprising me, By yon tree. You knew he, Miles behind him, Had traveled here...

“Your country’s flag, behold!” Betsy Ross to General George Washington. I spy the Swampfox Commander’s flagship😎

Email, comment or chat with me online about all your questions/suggestions. By late October most of your garden has been put to sleep for...

Solitude is sometimes confused with loneliness But it is Solitude that fuels the soul In Solitude we are awakened In Solitude we begin to...

Leafy, Leafy way up high, Like a leaf-pile in the sky, Leafy, Leafy come on down, Join my leaf-pile on the ground by Lauren Elizabeth and...

While a literary classic, I found Uncle Tom’s Cabin to be naively and selectively negatively conflated, stereotypically anti-Southern, a...

Indians once roamed this soil Great and hardy pioneers dug their faces in the dirt In sweat and toil Waste not for want this hallowed...

The Castle Camelot A castle planked, plotted and planed, Built for my grandchildren, Grandchildren grand, A three-storied masterpiece,...

I was indeed sitting in the shade in my Adirondack chair, cat napping, and outta one eye was watching my neighbors jet black cat, Mary,...

*photo by Brian Younger, I threw myself at “sailor take warning With pink sky in the morning,” And with ten footers, In daring youth,...

PLANT A SECRET GARDEN! Do you spy - Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Butternut Squash, Peppers, Chives, Basil, Dill, Rosemary, Sweet Potato Vines,...

“There are things in my life I never could have imagined” The Trail begins and ends at the same time and place in forever. Caught only in...

I don’t fish anymore I barely ride my bike The zest comes and goes In/out of my life Whence once obsessed The wonders of young life The...

“CREATIVITY IS FLEETING IN THE MOMENT. SEIZE IT!” So you want to write poetry, but think you can’t? There’s no such thing. My mentor and...

But the memory is as clear, As that moonlit night, We played golf, At Hampton Cove, I believe, quite near. We had started late, We were...