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Category: Embers from the Fire

Looking Ahead / Looking Back

March 12, 2023
Looking Ahead / Looking Back When my wife decorates the house for Christmas, some of the decor is winter-themed.  That means when Christmas season is over and those decorations get […]

Eye on the Sky

March 5, 2023
  What do you say when the first robin of the year turns into a robin invasion?  This first week or two of March I expect to see a robin […]

Calm After the Storm

February 24, 2023
  There’s something about a big snow that has always spoken to my heart.  I like to watch any snowfall, but when the forecast says “storm” I pay particular attention.  […]

True Song

February 11, 2023
  This has been an interesting week weather-wise with late March-like days sneaking into early February.  Yesterday on my walk it was sunny and 40 plus degrees.  This time of […]

Quick on the Draw

February 3, 2023
  I never understood those, including my first-born wife, who insist that the youngest child is always the most spoiled, most privileged child of any family.  My skepticism comes from […]

Snow Day

January 26, 2023
There is something calming and exciting about a snowy morning.  When the kids were, well kids, they would get so excited about forecast of a snowy morning.  Maybe it would […]

Soft Skies

January 26, 2023
Mid-winter in the north can be a challenge to the spirit. Day upon day extends the story of overcast skies. Seemingly endless gray that presses silence down upon the soul […]

Coincidence

January 11, 2023
  In 1986 my career brought me and my family to someplace I never expected I would visit, let alone live in.  That was the year that my employer started […]

Dan’s Landing       

January 2, 2023
     I like the name of it – Dan’s Landing.  If there was true justice in this fallen world, it should be a canoe launch on some remote northern […]