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 youYou’re my brother and my friend.We can talk all night longon this bench, here in the moonlight.We hear frogs, and whippoorwills,and listen to the cricketsunderneath this old oak tree.I can lay my head on your…
Copse and Spinney 