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, and all…

  The fractured moonlight bludgeoned its way through the clouds and splintered through the trees.  Jagged shadows stirred and spread across the ground, pulsating in the cracked light.  The night was alive!  A veritable playground for the wicked and cursed.  A prelude…

Just in time for Halloween Trees don their masquerade Some are cloaked in gold and green A colorful charade. Others expose their naked shapes Twisted, gnarled and bare Skeletal, haunting remains Their silhouettes do scare. The spirit of the holiday…

The late afternoon sun sent shards of light across the landscape where leaves shimmered in its golden cast and black shadows grew long across the lawn.  As the crisp, westerly wind blew, the leaves quaked upon the limbs, some aloft on the…

The month of November brings many joyous gifts and days to celebrate.  Daylight savings time’s exit has given us an extra hour of sleep and brighter, lighter mornings.  The days following Halloween have graced us (or plagued us) with leftover candy.  Veteran’s Day offers…

Contrary to popular belief, Halloween is not a celebration of the damned or all things evil, but instead a melding of many celebrations – the end of the growing season and its respective harvest, a welcoming of the winter months and…

I was a kid once, and I loved Holidays.  I still love Holidays, just in a different, somewhat more stressful way.  Halloween, to me, was always the kick off of the Holiday Season.  Thanksgiving and Christmas still seem eons away,…

Happy Fall! Last Saturday, we officially welcomed Fall into our lives and gardens, and I must say it was a dandy of a day.  I am not sorry about Summer’s exit.  In fact, I believe Saturday’s winds sent Summer packing…