In winter, it snows because
that’s the season.
In spring, flowers come up because
that’s the season.
In summer, the sun shines because
that’s the season.
In autumn, the leaves fall off the trees because
that’s the season.
And that is the year gone by.
River wrote this poem for one of our favorite magazines, Spider, but realized after she’d written it that it [...]
Last week, we went to the Lake District, a charming region in the north-western county of Cumbria. This is surely one of the most beautiful places we’ve been in England. The houses and walls of stone nestled in the rolling hills suggest a slower pace of life where the truly important things in [...]
What first inspired a bard of old to sing
Narcissus pining o’er the untainted spring?
In some delicious ramble, he had found
A little space, with boughs all woven round;
We went to see the snowdrops in the gardens at Hopton Hall last weekend. Before we got to Hopton Hall, River wasn’t convinced that it was worth a [...]
