Woke up this February First morning and saw more snow atop Northern Indiana ground. Looked out my bedroom window and saw a blue jay eat at the bird feeder. Watched a squirrel below grub for seeds scattered on the snow. Read page 46 of her book entitled Season’s Echoes. My Hoosier Lady Louise long ago penned a poem that she entitled “Snapshot, black and white.” She began with Background prop winter white groups of gray
Category: Indiana
Shadow Knows
Snowed again this week. Snowed week before when that Groundhog in nearby Pennsylvania DID NOT see his shadow, an event that predicts the end of frigid weather, an early spring. “Only a couple of inches of snow,” the Hoosiers brag to the this Texan. “Been an easy winter.” “Easy.” Yep, compared to the four months in 1995 when we went to Yekaterinburg Russia, twenty miles east of the Siberian line. Snow was waist deep. Never
Country Doctor
Spending my summer in a small Indiana town , surrounded by corn and soybean fields as I write World War II historical fiction. Went to see my “Country Doctor” the other day. Besides my health, we have another common interest—book writing. Both of us have published a book with an independent publisher. Neither of us made the best-selling list. Four years ago, I bought and read his book: “Surviving and Thriving with a Chronic
An Auction for a Veteran
“You wiggle your hand, Honey, you bought something.” The auctioneer got a laugh from the 90 plus people gathered in the VFW hall. Another laugh came when he put the Victoria Secret tote bag up for bids. “And there are other secrets in this bag.” Family and motorcycle friends were there on this Sunday afternoon to raise money for my second cousin Mike. Many had donated items for the auction. Mike wasn’t there. He is in
Single Engine
“If you have time to spare, go by air.” Said often by we licensed, single-engine, non-instrument rated private pilots. Storms, fog, darkness, repair frequently made us wait our one-engine, four person plane on the ground. Six decades later, I remembered that old saying because we had waited nine hours to board, for the second time, an airline flight from DFW to Indianapolis. The first morning boarding lasted 30 minutes. Then the pilot