Monday night we took a canoe ride after dinner on the small lake upon which our cabin sits on the shore. The water was calm and the lake was quiet with only a few other boats floating about. We paddled to the left and circled counter clockwise around the lake, opposite to the direction we…
It is fitting that today is Slice of Life Tuesday! The Slice of Life writing challenge started me on my blogging journey over four years ago. I’ve written nearly every day since February 23, 2017. Naturally, there are ups and downs when one blogs every day. Mostly, there have been satisfying days of accomplishment as…
I am a life long learner. I know this because I still enjoy looking for, obtaining, and synthesizing new information. Then, I like to put the information to use because I know if I do that I will remember it better. When my husband was in medical school, they had a saying. It went something…
Growth To pots of dirt, add Yellow elongated seeds Growing food for all. Carol Labuzzetta, draft, 2021 Phenologist A Leopold bench Watches spring colors come forth Beyond the coulee Carol Labuzzetta, draft, 2021 Spring Tree leaves budding now Colorful bursts of green life New food factories Carol Labuzzetta, draft, 2021 Birdsong Many sweet bird songs…
The March Slice of Life Story Challenge has ended so I’m trying to get back into my own blogging routine which means Poetry on Friday and Silent Sunday, photo only posts on the day thought of as either beginning or ending our week. This schedule, along with a Keto Monday post on occasion and a…
One of the most satisfying, yet challenging, writing lessons I did with my former writer’s circle group was pourquoi tales. These are stories that tell how or why something came to exist. As you might imagine they are difficult to write but fun to read. Even though my students were above benchmark third graders, writing…
It’s at this point in the Slice of Life Story Challenge, a little more than half way through, that I always get discouraged. Five years running, I can count on it happening. You know….thoughts such as: – why am I doing this? – why isn’t my readership higher this month than in previous months when…
Today, is my one thousandth, three hundredth, and twentieth blog post! That’s right I’ve made 1,320 posts to The Apples In My Orchard! It all started just before the Slice of Life Story Challenge in 2017. I opened my blog during the last week in February to test the waters and be ready to write…
Today is Poetry Friday. Yesterday, about this time, I glanced out my home office window and saw a flock of very active chickadees in our Norway spruce trees. They were flying from the evergreens to the bare limbed apple trees and back again to the needles for shelter. This flurry of spring activity inspired the…
The seed catalogs have been pouring in since January, and lately, I’ve been spending some time going through them looking for favorites and maybe a couple of new varieties to try. This is what gardeners do in the depth of winter, when it is sub-zero outside. The colors always stimulate me as well. I tend…