SEPTEMBER 2013

AND SO IT BEGINS.....

                          
      


...dressing in layers, white smoke billowing from the chimney of my neighbor's house. I imagine a well stoked fire in it's place as I turn up the thermostat (and happy to do so!)  Out come the water repellent jackets and boots....... Umbrella..... "at the ready"...... like a magic wand.......the levitation charm...."wingardium leviosa!" UP POPS the domed covering and a lovely walk in the rain becomes a part of the day.............I'm under it's spell     :  )

 

J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
Levitation Charm-"wingardium leviosa"

photos courtesy of free online images



I was wondering if 'Hermione Granger' would switch out the word umbrella for bumpershoot.....so I looked it up; it's not 'bumpershoot'; it's 'bumbershoot'!....who knew? not me!    : o

Bumbershoot: bumber - (alteration of 'umber' in umbrella) plus - shoot - (alteration of 'chute' as in parachute)

First known use: Circa 1896

Merriam-Webster



and then I came across this....BUMBERSHOOT ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON  (Labor Day Weekend)........who knew??? not me...again! but I know now!   : )

SEPTEMBER 2013

 

FIELDS OF GOLD

 

EVA CASSIDY - American vocalist and guitarist  (1963 - 1996)

 

 

'Fields of Gold' written by STING
aka Gordon Sumner - English musician, singer-songwriter   (b. 1951 )

SEPTEMBER 2013

AUTUMNAL EQUINOX

FROM SUMMER TO FALL

"To everything there is a Season, and a Time to every purpose under the Heaven..." Ecclesiastes 3:1


 'Balloon Ride Over the North Santiam Canyon'  2012
                      

'Alders and Ferns'

 'Hedge Hog Dancing
with Faeries'

artist Denise Sanders

dsanders@wvi.com

SEPTEMBER 2013

"A THING OF BEAUTY......"

John Keats- (1795-1821)                  

English Romantic Poet
                                                                              

                                                                                
 My Senior Yearbook- 1965    

SEPTEMBER 2013

"DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER"

I love Severus Snape! My high school English teacher was my Professor Snape......like Neville Longbottom, I was terrified of Mr. Vincent.......and for good reason too! He could wing a piece of chalk faster than a speeding bullet and hit his target! He was able to appear behind you out of nowhere!.....PAY ATTENTION!............. You can be sure that he taught us Magic!....... Poetry, Potions, and Places beyond the mundane. Too bad it took me all these years to appreciate the lesson and the teacher. I do now.

The mind of J. K. Rowling and the Potter series is astounding to me.

Alan Rickman..........There's no one like him.

Joseph C. Vincent ...May 1965.......There was no one like him.

SEPTEMBER 2013

PERSEVERANCE AND OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

AMERICAN POET AND EDUCATOR

resource: NEW LIFE

  

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER 2013

THE WISDOM of the DESERT

Thomas Merton-copyright 1960
By The Abbey of Gethsemani, Inc.

and other desert tales

BOOTS AND SAND - Yusuf Islam
2009