by Natalie Ogbourne | May 28, 2013 | Uncatagorized
Even though Mom and Dad first took us to the mountains when we were little, little enough that my brother and I had matching blue and white jackets, it wasn’t until we went to Yellowstone that we really hiked. Our early forays on the trail were not entirely...
by Natalie Ogbourne | May 15, 2013 | Uncatagorized
If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring? Pilgrims, of course. Of all the cards I have received in my life, you would think I would remember one more profound. No. I remember this. A silly joke that comes to mind more often than seems right does...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Apr 25, 2013 | Uncatagorized
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress no matter how slow. ~ Plato At nine o’clock one year ago tonight, my Dad inched his way through our door, upper body resting heavily on a walker, toes laboring to do the work that his missing...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Apr 17, 2013 | Uncatagorized
It could be anything – a soccer game, a wedding – and if it is to be held outdoors, the weather becomes a plot driving character in the day’s story. Like the girl from the nursery rhyme, when it’s good, it is really, really good, but when it’s bad? It might not be...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Mar 19, 2013 | Uncatagorized
Because we like snow, we watched it swirl through the branches of the tree that sits between our house and the pond. My daughter spotted a robin – our first of the year – perched on a branch, proof that winter will yield to spring. It will release its hold on the land...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Feb 27, 2013 | Uncatagorized
It’s hard to beat the Tetons. They are beautiful. It is easy to see why people would be in a hurry to arrive. Even so, there is beauty in the delay, if only we will slow down long enough to see it. Once, when we had driven up into Yellowstone from the Tetons, we met a...