by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 5, 2011 | Miracles, Nature, Waiting
Living in the mountains of Western North Carolina, the fall leaf prediction is heralded with shouts of joy or cries of dismay. Kathy Matthews, an associate professor of biology at Western Carolina University has the dubious honor of predicting fall color for our...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 23, 2011 | Miracles, Nature, Reading
I saw my first wooly worm on Wednesday. I was walking Thistle and she wanted to examine it pretty closely, so we stopped to consider it. I can report that he had four black rings on his nose, a brown middle and two black rings on his tail. That’s four weeks of...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 14, 2011 | Miracles, Nature, Poetry
FIREFLY FLY AWAY HOME I didn’t notice when they left, the fireflies that danced all summer in the yard. But on a September night I saw the last one lying in the grass, glowing steady. Unblinking. An accusing eye that would not close. Frozen wide in shock, or...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 5, 2011 | Nature, Waiting
My husband and I are fortunate to live in a particularly beautiful part of the Appalachian mountains. It’s pretty common for us to come around a turn or crest a hill and call the other’s attention to a lovely view. Foggy morning mists, distant snowy...
