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JUNE - "The sun is rich and gladly pays..."

Spanish Ladies  The sun is rich And gladly pays In golden hours, Silver days, And long green weeks That never end. School’s out. The time Is ours to spend. There’s Little League, Hopscotch, the creek, And, after supper, Hide-and-seek. The live-long light Is like a dream, and freckles come Like flies to cream. John Updike Elder flowers Yesterday our seven year old granddaughter caught her first fish - a rainbow trout no less - in the first of a series of Junior Angling Events this summer. Here she is with her daddy and the rainbow trout. Her dad is the one with the beard! Junior Angler I wonder - for how long have human beings been fishing? In our fortunate society we no longer rely on catching fish to sustain us. In other places, some people do, of course. That reminds me of the massive gap between societies - and yet, could it be that those who still need to catch a fish for dinner are happier than those in the "west" who abandon the wilderness for man-made acquisitions and ...

JANUARY - "From his sixth year, the Boy of whom I speak, In summer, tended cattle on the hills..."

DECEMBER: "The air felt crisp against my face as I wandered into the fruit tree-filled garden of my guest house in Bethlehem..."

NOVEMBER - "November is the pearl-grey month..."

OCTOBER - "This autumn I see the first leaves Writhe from the green into the yellow..."