by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
SOL25-0923 I step out onto my back porch. In the darkness that precedes this mid-August dawn, I sip my coffee and savor the damp coolness that has drifted in from the sea and lifted the fragrance of fading lavender and blooming peppermint. I listen for chirping sounds...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
SOL25-0909 There is a dry rustle of leaves parched from days of sun and hot temperatures. There is an aroma of fading roses mingled with sweet ripening pears. Green clover spreads across our browning grass. Honey bees drift from blossom to blossom, gathering the last...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, For Fun |
SOL25-0902 Me: Reclining in a lawn chair, relaxing on a warm end-of-summer afternoon.TM and NT: Jumping on the nearby trampoline. I. Wasp appears. Buzzes the boys like a bomber.The boys duck and scream.Wasp lands on the trampoline springs. II.The boys tumble off...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, For Fun |
SOL25-0729 This post on social media triggered my memories of childhood road trips. You’ll want to get your second cup of coffee before you begin reading. I remember this kind of travel. Every summer we made a road trip from Attica, Indiana, back East to New...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
It’s July, the month of blueberries! This year we are still waiting for them to ripen… any day now! When I was a girl in New Jersey, we picked them in the wild. Now my dear friend Karen shares her verdant blueberry patch with us. Ah, blueberries are so...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Last weekend we had three days that were over 100. Saturday’s high was 108; Sunday’s was 112, and on Monday, we scorched at 116. The highest temperature ever recorded in Portland was 107 and that was three times–once in July 1965 and twice in August...
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