Category: Out in Nature
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Favorite Places, Pastimes and Spaces
A Pictorial Post. State and National Parks (This is Sequoya State Park in Oklahoma) I love the white blossoms of the Dogwoods that pop out every spring! Enjoying a good book! (This is a very OLD copy of The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne, that my dad gave to me.) Colorado. Who does…
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Love Story: Episode 1, Love is in the Air
This is episode one in a series of excerpts from a book that I’ve been working on. Everyone has their love story. This is the season in which ours began. It was a golden evening in autumn of 1987. The sun glistened through shaky, clapping oak leaves blown with a breeze that felt neither too…
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Unhurried…
We experienced a cold front last night which turned the sky into a deep, blue-grey backdrop for the colorful new growth. Crisp air and a calm breeze, surprised us with a pleasant contradiction of two forces of nature: spring, ready to bring forth the warmth of bright, long days; winter, not yet ready to give…
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Renaissance Fair
Every year, for nearly three decades, Muskogee, Oklahoma hosts a month-long Renaissance Festival, put on by The Castle of Muskogee. The festival promises to bring visitors back in time to the 16th century with a variety of exciting events and activities! My daughter and I made it to the final day of the 2024 Muskogee…
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Little Fingers Little Toes
A Poem by Laura Acheson May 3, 2017 (A poem I wrote after visiting the beach with my children when they were little). Little fingers, little toes on the sand, on the beach like a child with your shovel and pail; for the first time discover the waves have come up to your feet.. so…
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“In this Place with You”
A Poem by Laura Acheson “In This place with you” “I can never get tired of being in this place with you You’re my brother…
Copse and Spinney 