The air was slight and acrid, slicing through flesh and bone.  Every breath, every utterance stolen from our lips and cast into the barren, frigid abyss.   And to think it’s not even technically Winter…yet.   The Winter Solstice arrives in…

  The deciduous trees and shrubs stand naked and bare as the last of their leaves were swept away in November’s brusque winds.  The sunlight, though dwindling, pierces through every branch and limb, no longer hindered by dense foliage.  The evergreens…

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  The remaining leaves shimmered and trembled in the moonlight like mercury glass ornaments adorning a Christmas tree.  The earth was drenched in her beams, dripping with silvery-blue light.   November’s Super Moon, also known as the Beaver Moon, graced our skies early…

  Aged and mellow, rich and warm, the gilded landscape nestled within the patchwork quilt November had wrapped about its shoulders, perhaps the last adoring embrace before Winter.   November is a month of beginnings and ends.  She is the…

  Darkness slithered in like an unctuous serpent, enigmatic, noxious and malevolent.  It quickly suffocated the light and all that was good and decent.  Evil could be done in the shadows.  Trickery and thievery thrived there.   In honor of Halloween,…

  As the wind whipped through the canopies, animating every leaf and limb, their shadows cast a violent display on the ground – flickering wildly and unhinged.  The trees thrashed and raged in what seemed to be a battle of unseen, invisible forces….