Tag Archives: Christmas
Mother’s fruitcake for Christmas and always
Family recipes are inherited like sepia photos of relatives who passed long ago, meant to savor the memories. None is more precious to me that a fruit cake. My last edition came out of the oven months before Christmas and … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Other
Tagged Captain Falcon Scott, Christmas, fruitcake, Gethsemani Abbey, Great British Baking Show
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Time Long Past
“Christmas comes round faster every time, Roger, and the years go by more quickly when you get to my age.” Grandma’s warning was also the annual refrain we heard from a lot of older folk as we grew up, and … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged Aging, Christmas, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Time, William Butler Yeats
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Christmas Birds
Our friends and neighbors turned up early for a hand-out on Christmas Eve in Williamsburg. They looked snug in their colored winter jackets and were eager for suet, seed, and nuts. I recorded them in my FeederWatch tally sheet—northern cardinals, … Continue reading
Roger musing about Peace with Nature 