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What is it about old fruit trees that touch us so? Who has time to stop, stand and look? If you drive the backroads and pass the orchards, the trees flash by the windows of your car. But what do you see? The shape, the shade, the shadow? The thick, gnarled trunks and limbs that remind you of your Grandfather's hands; tough and worn by years of work? Well, look quickly because those old trees are disappearing along with the way of life of the small orchardist who tends them. But that's progress and really, who cares? I love the unfolding beeches in spring, and the pines in winter; the elms I care for afar off, like great aloof men, whom I can admire; but for friendly confidences give me an apple tree in an old green meadow. - Great Possessions, David Grayson July and August make up the center piece of summer and the days fly by with just a hint of busy desperation, like hungry swallows on the wing. The first cuttings of hay are coming off the fields and untimely rain that threatens to move our way, politely skirts the southern slopes of Kittitas Valley and the equally blessed Badger Pocket, holding off until bales are tucked under cover, tight and dry in the barn. Ross, so confident in such luck, takes a break to go for lunch with the boys in town, when he told Urban he was going to be picking up that hay. But the rain missed us once again, and no harm was done. I was a long time learning how to take hold of nature, and think now with some sadness of all the life I lost in former years. The impression the earth gave me was confused: I was as one only half awake. A fine morning made me dumbly glad, a cool evening, after the heat of the day, and the work of it, touched my spirit restfully; but I could have explained neither the one nor the other. Gradually as I looked about me I began to ask myself, "Why is it that the sight of these common hills and fields gives me such exquisite delight? And if it is beauty, why is it beautiful? And if I am so richly rewarded by mere glimpses, can I not increase my pleasure with longer looks?" ...The air is just as full of good sights and good odours for the worker as for the idler, and it depends only upon the awareness, the aliveness, of our own spirits whether we toil like dumb animals or bless our labouring hours with the beauty of life. Such enjoyment and a growing command of our surroundings are possible, after a little practice, without taking much of that time we call so valuable and waste so sinfully. "I haven't time," says the farmer, the banker, the professor, with a kind of disdain for the spirit of life, when, as a matter of fact, he has all the time there is, all that anybody has--to wit, this moment, this great and golden moment!--but knows not how to employ it. He creeps when he might walk, walks when he might run, runs when he might fly--and lives like a woodchuck in the dark body of himself. - Great Possessions by David Grayson When I was about ten years old I entered a cake in the open baked goods section of the Kittitas County Fair. My sister did the same. Unfortunately, we both chose the same category (two-layer, white cake, decorated) and neither of us would change our mind and bake something else. I made the frosting on my cake very smooth, hardly any lines showing. My sister fussed over hers forever, giving it lifts and swirls and a fancy pattern design. Mine got the blue ribbon. Hers got the red, with the comment, "too messy". Whenever I can't quit fussing over a project, I think of that. - CE One who loves a hill, or a bit of valley, will experiment long until he finds the best spot to take his joy of it; and this is no more than the farmer himself does when he experiments year after year to find the best acres for his potatoes, his corn, his oats, his hay. - David Grayson, Great Possessions Quick Click
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I think we have come upon hasty and heated days, and are too much mastered by the god of hurry and the swift and greedy eye. We accept flashing pictures of life for life itself; we rush here and rush there and, having arrived, rush away again--to what sensible purpose? Be still a little! Be still! - David Grayson, Great Possessions Have a Happy Fourth of July! The independence and freedom you enjoy is well worth celebrating. You can't beat "sleeping under the stars" for viewing meteor showers such as the Perseids in August -- that is if you can stay awake. Also, if you get far enough north but not too far north, you might luck out and see the Northern Lights spreading their fantastical auroral curtains across the night sky. The Kittitas Valley had a spectacular Northern Lights show one night early in August. Visit the Space Environment Center (NOAA) site to learn more about watching the Aurora.
"Good God,
how sweet are all things here!
It is astonishing how many people there are in cities and towns who have a secret longing to get back into quiet country places, to own a bit of the soil of the earth, and to cultivate it. To some it appears as a troublesome malady only in spring and will be relieved by a whirl or two in country roads, by a glimpse of the hills, or a day by the sea; but to others the homesickness is deeper seated and will be quieted by no hasty visits. These must actually go home. - David Grayson, Great Possessions
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