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You can’t splash in puddles if it doesn’t rain

November 19, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

At the last second, I changed my mind against picking my kids up from the bus in the car and instead grabbed the umbrellas and a jacket. It was warm. I figured they had probably not had recess, what with all the rain. The afternoon included a longer-than-normal piano lesson for my son during which…

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Filed Under: Featured, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: autumn, beauty, boots, color, fall, neighborhood, outdoors, puddles, rain, splashing, walking, weather

Glimpses of fall

November 17, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Today I was too busy noticing fall and being with my kids to write, and tonight I was too busy prepping for Tuesday’s blog carnival on humor in parenting. So here are a few images of a still November day in Northern Virginia.  

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A change in the forecast

November 24, 2012 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Closing in on December Even though you can’t see the fifteen degrees that tromped out of the woods yesterday with as many miles of winds each hour, their departure left today hunched over, knocked into a new category where shoulders that once opened to warmth and the smell of dry leaves baking turn heavy, and…

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Filed Under: The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: cold, fall, NaBloPoMo, nature, poetry, seasons, wind, winter

More on leaves

November 15, 2012 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Background When a November sky is kind, a maple tree is brilliant, spreading its red royally, like a regal bird preening. But when that side smile of blue sky turns cold, a resentful shade of grey, the leaves mimic an angry stop light and remind you of old blood on a dishrag that you didn’t…

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Where we sit

November 14, 2012 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Point of View A beautiful day doesn’t care if you spend it outside where you can smell the leaves or behind glass, driving past so many more than the ones in your yard as long as your heart is open It’s been a long day. A good one. But I’m tired. That’s all I got….

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Filed Under: The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: fall, leaves, NaBloPoMo, outdoors, poetry, priorities, seasons

Playing in the leaves

November 13, 2012 by Jessica Leave a Comment

When we found out the neighbor we were going to meet at the park had to go back home for bad behavior, the leaf pile called us. I don’t know how we managed to have so much fun without anyone getting an eye poked out or losing a Croc. But it was a day when…

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