Category Archives: Montauk daisies

The Trees Letting Go

Age is an opportunity no less than youth but clothed in another dress.  It is that season when trees show us how lovely letting go is.  Especially sugar maples. A surprise lilac against the backdrop of our house greeted me … Continue reading

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Mother Nature’s Calendar

The calendar said it was the first day of Autumn this week.  Signs abound in our neck of the woods. Colorful leaves on the neighbor’s sugar maple. Buds are about to open on our Montauk daisies. Apples keep falling off … Continue reading

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This and That

Life is good; life is wonderful.  New neighbors are moving in.  A new puppy is trying its walking legs.  All wobbly, floppy. Here and there when it walks.  Circled around my legs and licked my hand this morning.  Conversations of … Continue reading

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Our Neck of the Woods

The insect chorus begins anew. Crickets and katydids entertain. Signals of late August as I walk through the gardens. The glorious colors of leaves turning adds to the surrounding beauty of Mother Nature. Our Montauk daisies have blossomed once more … Continue reading

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