nature
Look Up, Look Down, Look Out
Before all the leaves are down take a moment to look up. This is Innisfree Garden last Saturday. Big Halloween…
Wordsworth on the Rail Trail
There's a drainage ditch runs alongside the rail trail where we often take our morning stroll. It runs with water…
Innisfree Garden
A beautiful day and Innisfree Garden is open for the season. There is not much left of the house that…
Bumbarrel, Mumruffin and Poke Pudding
It was Clive Bennett who got me traveling down this particular track. He's a real birder and maintains a wonderful…
Beavering
Big excitement on The Daily Stroll! There we were, just strolling along the part of the Appalachian Trail than runs…
The Daily Stroll
With Innisfree Garden closed for the season time to revisit old familiar haunts.
First Day of Fall and the First Autumn Walk
A glorious day for a stroll around the lake at Innisfree Garden.
The Day That Summer Died
The Day That Summer Died From all around the mourners came The day that Summer died, From hill and valley,…
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Did you have a special place as a child? Perhaps somewhere secret and magical? A corner of a city park,…
Among the Narcissi
Spring comes earlier in the UK than it does here and the growing season is longer and cooler. Plath's poem…
We’re going to see the rabbit
‘We’re going to see the rabbit’ We are going to see the rabbit. We are going to see the rabbit.…
Lines Written in Early Spring
Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate…
The Great Unleaving: When Life Throws Rhubarb on your Custard
I left full-time employment at the end of June with a grand plan of doing nothing. After 45 years in…
Social Media and the Two-Minute Hate
Near the beginning of George Orwell's 1984 our hero Winston Smith attends a rally at the Ministry of Truth where…