The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: seasons

  • Celebrate Spring!

    Join us as we wander amongst the cherry blossoms.

  • Coming Out of Darkness

    Hang in there, baby! Spring is coming!

  • The Dark of December

    The sun’s indifference and neglect in winter is very hard to take.

  • N-N-1 Season Changes

    Delightful submissions this time around for our N-N-1 writing/photography adventure!

  • Seasonal Transitions

    I am so grateful to be living in a climate of seasons again.

  • Nature’s Personality

    When I lived in Florida, I avoided nature at all costs. For me it was a place of spiders and snakes and mosquitoes and lightning strikes and fire ants and tornadoes and floods and, increasingly, forest fires. You couldn’t even jump into a pile of leaves for the scorpions. (How does one get through childhood…

  • What I Love about Seattle, Washington

    I’ve been living in this delightful city for 2 ½ years now, and I have never been happier. It sort of feels like I went to bed in Florida and I woke up in the Land of Reasonable People. Not a day goes by when I don’t look around in awe. How did I get…

  • O’Dark Thirty

    I’ve been in Seattle for two years now, and I’d like to think I’m adapting well. But as Autumn establishes itself, I start to feel as if I’m in a foreign country. I suspect that will always be the case. Not since I lived in the Netherlands have I experienced such extreme changes in daylight…

  • Happy Winter!

    The term “solstice” always sets off a slight frisson in me. It evokes ancient rites and rituals, the customs of people we barely remember and are hard-pressed to comprehend. No matter what your spiritual beliefs or lack thereof, it’s hard to ignore the passage of time as indicated by the sun, our main purveyor of…

  • Beauty in the Gray

    It’s another rainy Seattle day. Just as it was yesterday. And the day before. And the day before that. You don’t realize how much you thrive on sunlight until it’s taken from you. I’ve only lived in the Pacific Northwest for a little over a year, but I’m already sensing a pattern. This time of…