April 23, 2012

April 15-22


Spring came on in abundance this last week. It is unusual in our experience here to have so many of the fruit trees blossoming at the same time. Plum, crabapple, cherry, pear and apple trees all were blossoming and the bumble & mason bees were busy in the ‘bee-loud’ meadow.

Although the Deep Singing afternoon that had been scheduled for Sunday was cancelled because leader Helen Bee was suffering a bout of laryngitis, there were a number of visitors coming and going over the course of the week.

On Tuesday it was quite a nice surprise to be visited by Sally Blumenthal-McGannon, up from the redwoods in Los Altos, CA for a visit with camp elder Phoebe Bee. Sally will be back in June for therapeutic touch. On Wednesday, Leonie’s sister Melanie dropped by. Helen Palisin was here on personal retreat for the week. Penny Sharp came by for tea on Friday. Sandora Hedrich and Regent Pellerin joined us for lunch on Sunday, and later in the afternoon Karen Sterling-Goens stopped by for a visit.


friend Sally

sister Melanie

cherry blossoms


And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
W.B. Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree

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