autumn

Richard Crowson: The Punctuation Of Autumn

Richard Crowson — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:00:00 +0000

We’ve been inundated for so many months with political exclamation points. How great is it now to be able to relax a bit and let nature remind us that there is more to life than Republican red and Democratic blue.

Richard Crowson: The Annual Struggle Of Fall Yardwork

Richard Crowson — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:00:00 +0000

Richard Crowson: A Lesson In Harmony From A Cottonwood

Richard Crowson — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:00:00 +0000

There’s no way I could not take a walk this morning. Aside from the intensive lobbying of my Airedale friend Ollie, the blue Kansas sky and ruby leaves of our pin oaks overpowered me. So I hitched Ollie to the leash and out we went, fully engulfed in another splendid crispy November autumn morning.

Richard Crowson: The Stillness of Autumn

Richard Crowson — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:00:00 +0000

Fall is a time that always reminds me of when I was a kid growing up in the developing suburbs of Memphis. I had lots of opportunities then, to roam around the fields and woods, going no place in particular through nature’s leafy abundance.

Sometimes I was Robin Hood, sometimes a yodeling Tarzan, and sometimes I was just a leaf-kicking explorer feeling the breezes that whispered of a weather change just around the next weekend.