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I Was Given A Plum Tree

And here I document the presentation of my Christmas present.

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Stay tuned for plums. 

Ranch Life, Memoir, Nature, Small Pleasures, Finding HopecynthiaDecember 25, 2012Christmas, ranch life, planting, trees, plums, Nancy Ward, gratitude, photosComment
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Soul-Oh

Ranch Life, NaturecynthiaDecember 26, 2012Gaviota, walks, photos, Christmas Eve, photo gallery, Ranch, Hollister Ranch, hikes, solo walks, beauty, memoir, gratitude1 Comment
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Behind the Garage

Family History, MemoircynthiaDecember 25, 20121960s Long Island, Christmas, family, my sister, Marlene, nostalgia, childhood, adolescence, laughter, family history, Long Island
Lines and reflections Fog at play. A hike with friends...foolproof remedy for the blues. We’re fortified now. A storied old house: “Outdoors the wind./Indoors the locked heart and the lost key.” (Louis Macniece) We ran into a skeleton, a miniature mule, and Milly today. I’m obsessed. Can you blame me?! Looking out towards Gaviota Peak the fog considers a comeback best kind of welcome Ranch roads on this late summer morning... red vein veterinary lesson Well, THIS was unexpected. And this is how we are getting to know the infinitely fascinating and oh-so-faraway Felix...sigh. When a friend calls to me from the road 
And slows his horse to a meaning walk, 
I don't stand still and look around 
On all the hills I haven't hoed, 
And shout from where I am, What is it? 
No, not as there is a time to talk. 
I thrust my hoe in th In a dark time the eye begins to see (Roethke) a walk adorned by swirls of fog The shy return of clouds.
“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
— Mary Oliver
 

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