by Shari Dragovich | Jan 22, 2015 | Home Front, Nature
I am reading Leo Tolstoy’s epic, Anna Karenina. Even if you’ve never read the story, I’m sure you’ve heard its opening line: All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Far be it from me to disagree with Mr. Tolstoy, but this line has...
by Shari Dragovich | Nov 27, 2013 | Faith, Home Front, Nature, Ribbon Box
The trees stand naked now–other than a few stubborn brown oak leaves insistent on hanging to their keeper, pretending they are Spanish moss on old Southern live oaks but looking more like soggy bits of brown paper bag scattered by a gusting wind and caught by...
by Shari Dragovich | Oct 8, 2013 | Faith, Home Front, Nature, Ribbon Box, These Days
There are some trees in my deeply sloped back yard—really more forest than yard—which have beat all the others in donning their fall color. They are over-achievers demanding attention and have their moment of glory first. These trees are scrawny compared to those...
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