by Louie Ferrera | Apr 4, 2024 | Nature
Our plum tree is almost completely dead, but instead of mourning its loss, we’ve reimagined what a tree could be. Somehow a small cluster of branches at the center of the tree have managed to bloom this spring. Tiny white blossoms have given way to slender green...
by Louie Ferrera | Dec 8, 2023 | Meditations, Nature
It’s a rain dance out there today, a veritable, seasonal soiree. Drip, drop, splish, splash, pitter, patter, an onomatopoetic smorgasbord of sounds. Cars whizz by on the freeway, their tires hiss like bacon on a hot griddle. Ducks are delighted. Frogs flip and flop...
by Louie Ferrera | Apr 14, 2023 | Nature
Spring. Is there a more glorious time of year? The other seasons all have their upsides. Summer: the heat and sunshine, the lazy river and the ocean, barefoot days and a cold Mexican beer just when you need one. Autumn: the golden glow of the vineyards as their leaves...
by Louie Ferrera | Mar 3, 2023 | Nature
Rain, rain, rain! I’m so delighted to be experiencing actual winter weather for the first time in a long time. Too much of a good thing you might say? Never! The news media is doing its level best to try and rain (pun intended) on our parade. Hyperbole like...
by Louie Ferrera | Nov 23, 2021 | Meditations, Nature
It’s before 8:00am and all things seem possible. Before 8:00am there’s no hatred; the mean, vicious and small minded all sleep in. Before 8:00am no one wears a face mask, fear is still in bed. While greed heads dream of more and more and more, the earth awakens and...
Glad you included the vineyards, the lovely contrast of large, bright-yellow leaves with the dusky purple of grapes peaking out…
Just for S&G I looked up Louie Road on the map. It’s kinda half way twixt Yreka and Weed. Just…
Great. Imagery and descriptions, Louie. How far did you go/
Lovely. Seems like quite a trip. Love your word selection. So descriptive
“It was alive and took over our bodies as we swirled around each other” Around, and sometimes through! Comin’,comin’,comin’, around….…