Today,
From my window,
I see that patches of sunlight
have fallen through the trees.
The sun patches
have landed on the street,
on the sidewalk,
and even on my grass.
Sun Drops, however
do not hinder
traffic
nor block sidewalks.
Their lights
however,
do catch my eyes,
and my fancy!
Marylee Manson Armour
Vernal Equinox
First Day of Spring
March 20, 2009
SUN AT PLAY
A bright spot shines up at me
from my sweater.
The sun, in play
and through the window glass
has tagged me.
Oh Sun,
I can't hold onto
your reflection
but I did tag you back!
Play within my
thought, for me,
is always fun!
Marylee Manson Armour
March 20, 2009
Showing posts with label Seasons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seasons. Show all posts
Friday, March 20, 2009
ARRIVAL OF WILD GEESE
Yesterday, above trees in my yard, I saw a flock of wild geese fly across the sky, then descend and land in a large school yard. For a number of years, in Spring, and with admiration. I have watched geese find again a summer home. What a long way from the South the geese have to journey!
How generous it is of the Creator to arrange for geese to fly in flocks. Well, we human folk live as a group in families, too, and in some of our homes, so do pets.
The way North, and the summer place to which the geese will fly, must be held in the memory of the geese's leaders. Creatures of the air and land carry no maps, but to find their way, they surely must have markers of their own.
Welcome back, wild geese! Your annual return to our town, and from the far-distant South is a wonderful accomplishment! How blessed is each life to have a Loving Guide for its needs, and for all of life.
Marylee Manson Armour
March 20, 2009
How generous it is of the Creator to arrange for geese to fly in flocks. Well, we human folk live as a group in families, too, and in some of our homes, so do pets.
The way North, and the summer place to which the geese will fly, must be held in the memory of the geese's leaders. Creatures of the air and land carry no maps, but to find their way, they surely must have markers of their own.
Welcome back, wild geese! Your annual return to our town, and from the far-distant South is a wonderful accomplishment! How blessed is each life to have a Loving Guide for its needs, and for all of life.
Marylee Manson Armour
March 20, 2009
Friday, March 21, 2008
First Day of Spring
In this year of 2008, I thought it would be fun to be at hand and note the very moment that spring arrived. Wikipedia.com however, stated that the first day of spring would arrive on March 20th, 2008, at 5:58 a.m. I'm too late.
In thinking of spring's arrival date, my daughter, Jean Armour Polly, made a discovery. She found that the 5:58 arrival of the spring season, listed by Wikipedia.com, is stated in Universal Time. (see next article) Thus, for our local area, with Eastern Standard Time, spring's arrival came earlier, at 1:58 AM.
Now, with the sun high in the sky, I am too late to be a first greeter of spring for this year. Nonetheless, many of us, (outdoor creatures, too?), after weeks of snow and ice, are grateful when warmer days arrive, our gift from spring and the Creator of our seasons.
Marylee Manson Armour
Jean Armour Polly
March 21,2008
******
UNIVERSAL TIME
What is "Universal Time, (abbreviated UT?) Universal Time is sometimes referred to, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (abbreviated GMT). Those two terms are often used loosely to refer to time kept on the Greenwich meridian (whose longitude is zero).
" Universal Time is five hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time," says the US Naval Observatory page. But to convert to Daylight Savings Time, according to TimeandDate.com.,
we have to subtract 4 hours.
Wikipedia reveals, "In reality, the day is longer than the night at an equinox." Some of us may say, "Just what is the definition of an equinox?"
Google guides us to a site that reports, "An equinox in astronomy is that moment in time (not a whole day) when the centre of the Sun can be observed to be directly above the Earth's equator. The equinox occurs around March 20 and September 23 each year."
Commonly a "day" is defined as the period that sunlight reaches the ground in the absence of a local obstacle.
Collected by
Jean Armour Polly
March 21, 2008
In thinking of spring's arrival date, my daughter, Jean Armour Polly, made a discovery. She found that the 5:58 arrival of the spring season, listed by Wikipedia.com, is stated in Universal Time. (see next article) Thus, for our local area, with Eastern Standard Time, spring's arrival came earlier, at 1:58 AM.
Now, with the sun high in the sky, I am too late to be a first greeter of spring for this year. Nonetheless, many of us, (outdoor creatures, too?), after weeks of snow and ice, are grateful when warmer days arrive, our gift from spring and the Creator of our seasons.
Marylee Manson Armour
Jean Armour Polly
March 21,2008
******
UNIVERSAL TIME
What is "Universal Time, (abbreviated UT?) Universal Time is sometimes referred to, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (abbreviated GMT). Those two terms are often used loosely to refer to time kept on the Greenwich meridian (whose longitude is zero).
" Universal Time is five hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time," says the US Naval Observatory page. But to convert to Daylight Savings Time, according to TimeandDate.com.,
we have to subtract 4 hours.
Wikipedia reveals, "In reality, the day is longer than the night at an equinox." Some of us may say, "Just what is the definition of an equinox?"
Google guides us to a site that reports, "An equinox in astronomy is that moment in time (not a whole day) when the centre of the Sun can be observed to be directly above the Earth's equator. The equinox occurs around March 20 and September 23 each year."
Commonly a "day" is defined as the period that sunlight reaches the ground in the absence of a local obstacle.
Collected by
Jean Armour Polly
March 21, 2008
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Wild Geese
A few days ago, flocks of wild geese filled the sky.
As I listened to their voices, a poem came to my mind
that a friend once had recited for me.
Something Told the Wild Geese
Something told the wild geese
It was time to go,
Though the fields lay golden
Something whispered, 'Snow!'
Leaves were green and stirring,
Berries lustre-glossed,
But beneath warm feathers
Something cautioned, 'Frost!'
All the sagging orchards
Steamed with amber spice,
But each wild beast stiffened
At remembered ice.
Something told the wild geese
It was time to fly -
Summer sun was on their wings,
Winter in their cry.
---Rachel Field
Blogged by Marylee Armour
October 21, 2007
As I listened to their voices, a poem came to my mind
that a friend once had recited for me.
Something Told the Wild Geese
Something told the wild geese
It was time to go,
Though the fields lay golden
Something whispered, 'Snow!'
Leaves were green and stirring,
Berries lustre-glossed,
But beneath warm feathers
Something cautioned, 'Frost!'
All the sagging orchards
Steamed with amber spice,
But each wild beast stiffened
At remembered ice.
Something told the wild geese
It was time to fly -
Summer sun was on their wings,
Winter in their cry.
---Rachel Field
Blogged by Marylee Armour
October 21, 2007
Thursday, May 03, 2007
An Early Celebration of Spring
A PARTY?
Are my outdoor friends,
the bunnies, the wrens
having a party?
My yard is all decorated
with yellow and blue!
Everywhere
"Jill over the ground"
and dandelions,
with their beauty,
spruce up my yard.
*******
Poetic Thoughts From Others
The iris looks exactly like
the one in the water.
Matsuuo Basho
*******
Thou perceivest the flowers put
forth their precious odors,
And none can tell how from so small
a center, comes such sweets.
William Blake
*******
There is a flower, the Lesser Celendine
that shrinks, like many more
from cold and rain,
and the first moment that the sun may shine
bright as the sun itself, 'tis out again.
William Wordsworth
*******
From my reading:
"Turkey, not Holland (the Netherlands) is the original home of the tulip. Tulips bloomed in the Sultans' gardens long before the Dutch traders discovered those flowers and brought their bulbs to the Netherlands.
The Dutch people, however developed those flowers to their present beauty and infinite variety.
During the second World War, the Dutch people, to keep from starving, ate many thousands of the bulbs.
The Tulip bulb is somewhat similar to that of the onion. Thus, Tulips which nourish the soul with their beauty, in a pinch, can be used to nourish the body." Author unknown.
The material above was collected
for my much enjoyed visit to the
Hickory Hollow Garden Club
February 26, 1992
*******
White Coral Bells
White coral bells upon a slender stalk
Lilies of the valley deck my garden walk.
O don't you wish that you could hear them ring.
That will happen only when the fairies sing.
A loved Girl Scout round
Author Unknown
*******
A Re-run for 2007
It's Spring! It's Spring
The bird's on the wing.
Absurd, absurd.
The wing's on the bird.
*******
Memory's gifts
Our memory must have a wonderful filing system. In various seasons
loved songs and rhymes present themselves again.
(White Coral Bells, A Bird on the wing)
marylee manson armour, May 4, 2007
*******
As I Look Out My Window
The sun has arrived.
A tree drops its shadow
on the grass, and
feather-light,
the shadow
made no sound.
marylee manson armour
5/7/07
SPRING SONGS
While I write, I am
singing for you.
Spring has come
O spring as come
O where has she come?
to the hills
and to the valleys.
Spring has come!
Author unknown,
even, it seems, to Google
Admiring Miracles
(from such small seeds)
Of all the flowers
The wild ones are my favorite.
They have a full-time Gardener,
And my task is only to admire.
marylee manson armour
a 1992 thought
Something Else To Consider
I wonder whether seeds,
when they flower,
feel as we do,
when we accomplish
a goal:
Happy, yes,
but puzzled, too.
"Was this flowering, the goal
I was meant for
or is there more yet that
I am expected
to accomplish?"
Someone may watch us,
as we watch the wild plants.
We know that setting seed for
the continuation of the specie
still lies ahead for nature's ones.
What are we expected to
pass along?
Sometimes: new life;
Sometimes: gifts to others, in
ideas that we share
and also in the
expectation
we hold for life:
faith in goodness, and
trust in the Good that
each of us receives
at birth.
marylee manson armour
May 4, 2007
Are my outdoor friends,
the bunnies, the wrens
having a party?
My yard is all decorated
with yellow and blue!
Everywhere
"Jill over the ground"
and dandelions,
with their beauty,
spruce up my yard.
*******
Poetic Thoughts From Others
The iris looks exactly like
the one in the water.
Matsuuo Basho
*******
Thou perceivest the flowers put
forth their precious odors,
And none can tell how from so small
a center, comes such sweets.
William Blake
*******
There is a flower, the Lesser Celendine
that shrinks, like many more
from cold and rain,
and the first moment that the sun may shine
bright as the sun itself, 'tis out again.
William Wordsworth
*******
From my reading:
"Turkey, not Holland (the Netherlands) is the original home of the tulip. Tulips bloomed in the Sultans' gardens long before the Dutch traders discovered those flowers and brought their bulbs to the Netherlands.
The Dutch people, however developed those flowers to their present beauty and infinite variety.
During the second World War, the Dutch people, to keep from starving, ate many thousands of the bulbs.
The Tulip bulb is somewhat similar to that of the onion. Thus, Tulips which nourish the soul with their beauty, in a pinch, can be used to nourish the body." Author unknown.
The material above was collected
for my much enjoyed visit to the
Hickory Hollow Garden Club
February 26, 1992
*******
White Coral Bells
White coral bells upon a slender stalk
Lilies of the valley deck my garden walk.
O don't you wish that you could hear them ring.
That will happen only when the fairies sing.
A loved Girl Scout round
Author Unknown
*******
A Re-run for 2007
It's Spring! It's Spring
The bird's on the wing.
Absurd, absurd.
The wing's on the bird.
*******
Memory's gifts
Our memory must have a wonderful filing system. In various seasons
loved songs and rhymes present themselves again.
(White Coral Bells, A Bird on the wing)
marylee manson armour, May 4, 2007
*******
As I Look Out My Window
The sun has arrived.
A tree drops its shadow
on the grass, and
feather-light,
the shadow
made no sound.
marylee manson armour
5/7/07
SPRING SONGS
While I write, I am
singing for you.
Spring has come
O spring as come
O where has she come?
to the hills
and to the valleys.
Spring has come!
Author unknown,
even, it seems, to Google
Admiring Miracles
(from such small seeds)
Of all the flowers
The wild ones are my favorite.
They have a full-time Gardener,
And my task is only to admire.
marylee manson armour
a 1992 thought
Something Else To Consider
I wonder whether seeds,
when they flower,
feel as we do,
when we accomplish
a goal:
Happy, yes,
but puzzled, too.
"Was this flowering, the goal
I was meant for
or is there more yet that
I am expected
to accomplish?"
Someone may watch us,
as we watch the wild plants.
We know that setting seed for
the continuation of the specie
still lies ahead for nature's ones.
What are we expected to
pass along?
Sometimes: new life;
Sometimes: gifts to others, in
ideas that we share
and also in the
expectation
we hold for life:
faith in goodness, and
trust in the Good that
each of us receives
at birth.
marylee manson armour
May 4, 2007
Thursday, March 29, 2007
A New Season
Spring, even though late, has come
at last to mid-New York State,
and to the North.
Earthworms have appeared
on my driveway, and a robin
has come to my back yard.
The date is March 27th, 2007.
Some years robins
have arrived
from their winter homes
on March 1st.
I have seen
earthworms, too,
come from underground
on the same day.
Robins, earthworms,
even wild plants I believe
when it is time to to move north
or to wake from underground slumber
receive spiritual guidance to do so.
With spring's arrival, waking comes,
and we human folk, in the new season,
also find renewed energy in our activity.
Marylee Manson Armour
March 27,2007, March 28,2007
*******
A RULE MY MOTHER GAVE ME:
Mother called the rule a way to get items
where they belong; then when needed,
such items can be found
Mother said,
"When you have something in your hand,
take the item to the place where it ultimately
belongs, whether to a kitchen drawer, a counter,
or a closet.
That rule is so ingrained in my mind
that even today, each time I carry something
from here to there, whether it is a
a pair of shears to be put into a drawer
or discards to a bin for trash day,
the old rule urges me on.
*******
A HAND-ME-DOWN JOKE
Two friends, an older man and an older woman
were at lunch.
In conversation, the man said to the woman,
"You know, Tillie, it's about time that we start to
think about the "here-after."
Tillie answered, "I think about that often."
He said, with disbelief, "You do?!
She said, "Yes." " Every time I go to another room,
I say to myself "What am I here after?"
Marylee Manson Armour
and Elizabeth Lindquist, who remembered the story.
March 27,2007
*******
--
Visit my Blog!
http://armourm.blogspot.com
at last to mid-New York State,
and to the North.
Earthworms have appeared
on my driveway, and a robin
has come to my back yard.
The date is March 27th, 2007.
Some years robins
have arrived
from their winter homes
on March 1st.
I have seen
earthworms, too,
come from underground
on the same day.
Robins, earthworms,
even wild plants I believe
when it is time to to move north
or to wake from underground slumber
receive spiritual guidance to do so.
With spring's arrival, waking comes,
and we human folk, in the new season,
also find renewed energy in our activity.
Marylee Manson Armour
March 27,2007, March 28,2007
*******
A RULE MY MOTHER GAVE ME:
Mother called the rule a way to get items
where they belong; then when needed,
such items can be found
Mother said,
"When you have something in your hand,
take the item to the place where it ultimately
belongs, whether to a kitchen drawer, a counter,
or a closet.
That rule is so ingrained in my mind
that even today, each time I carry something
from here to there, whether it is a
a pair of shears to be put into a drawer
or discards to a bin for trash day,
the old rule urges me on.
*******
A HAND-ME-DOWN JOKE
Two friends, an older man and an older woman
were at lunch.
In conversation, the man said to the woman,
"You know, Tillie, it's about time that we start to
think about the "here-after."
Tillie answered, "I think about that often."
He said, with disbelief, "You do?!
She said, "Yes." " Every time I go to another room,
I say to myself "What am I here after?"
Marylee Manson Armour
and Elizabeth Lindquist, who remembered the story.
March 27,2007
*******
--
Visit my Blog!
http://armourm.blogspot.com
Monday, January 15, 2007
Testing a Weather Saying
OK, January:
The month that comes in good
will go out bad.
In our town,
You surely came in good.
Leaving us, what will you
prove to be?
The month that comes in good
will go out bad.
In our town,
You surely came in good.
Leaving us, what will you
prove to be?
Sunday, December 24, 2006
At The Gate of the Year
At a most hopeless point in the War, George the VI of England felt he did not have a light at the end of the tunnel to offer his poor beleaguered subjects.
During his Christmas radio broadcast of 1939, the King shared an excerpt from a poem by M. Louise Haskins:
I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year
'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.'
And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way!'
Click for more information, and the complete poem.
Collected by Marylee Manson Armour
in 1940
During his Christmas radio broadcast of 1939, the King shared an excerpt from a poem by M. Louise Haskins:
I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year
'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.'
And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way!'
Click for more information, and the complete poem.
Collected by Marylee Manson Armour
in 1940
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