It was still and silent as man and beast sought refuge in the cool, dark places tucked away from the afternoon sun – harboring both life and spirit.  Subdued and lifeless, the birds were mute, the perennials wilted, and…

  As Friday’s winds rattled the landscape and ravished our senses, it dawned on me that nature is truly a multi-tasker.  Like a wild-fire that clears away dead, diseased and suffocating underbrush, the wind assisted in pruning out the weak, dead and…