Water
Water Woes
Over the last few months, I have given water a great deal of thought. Last spring, our well ran dry. We had no water. A plumber was contacted and we had a new well drilled. It took quite a long time and many additional feet of depth to access the water table. The reason the…
Slice of Life Tuesday: The Erie Canal in Western New York
A lot of memories flooded my head when I was home last week visiting my parents in Western New York. This is the area in which I grew up – outside of Rochester, New York. My parents no longer live in the town where I went to high school but rather in an adjacent town,…
Haiku Heaven
Wetland Celebration Today I was part of a group of Environmental Educators celebrating our Wetlands. We hosted fourth, fifth, and sixth graders from 9 – 2pm in thirty-minute stations. I had the pleasure of seeing 177 students, plus all their teachers today for lessons on Nature Poetry. Since our stations were only 30 minutes each,…
Silent Sunday: Pretty Summer Things
Silent Sunday: A Few Days at The Lake
The Day the Well Ran Dry
No one realizes how dependent on, or abusive of, water you are until you do not have it. This is the situation in which my family now finds itself! Here is our story…. Yesterday, my husband spent most of the day re-grading part of our front yard. There was a mis-hap with herbicide this year…
Silent Sunday: Water Water Everywhere
Rising & Receding Water
Memories Growing up very near Lake Ontario, several of my friends lived along the lakeshore. My best friend lived in a house where their dining room looked out over the lake which, depending on the day, could be both menacing and beautiful. Across the road was a pond. During the years when water was high,…