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Aug.21.2012 The change of season Tap-dance rain drowns a dream I came close to remembering. Instead it drifts into the rhythm of water on a skylight and all is lost, for now. The hazel tree is losing its zest too and will soon shed the grace this garden has been gifted with until time passes and comes again for it to...	Sep.04.2011 The Lawn Ranger Digging Deep-Gardening with Cynthia Brian The Lawn Ranger ©2011 Cynthia Brian “A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule!” Michael Pollan Lawns. People love them or hate them. There seems not to be an in-between. I err on the side of adoration....
Sep.01.2011 Find Love, Luck, & Life with Numbers Love by the Numbers with Glynis McCants, Lawn Rangers and Lucky Charms with Cynthia Brian World Talk Radio presents the hour of power positive talk radio program, Starstyle®-Be the Star You Are!® with host, the Oprah of the Airwaves, Cynthia Brian. To listen to the complete show...	Aug.28.2010 Mr. Turf, What's in a Name? - Russian Swarloff = greensward, Ellis Island, 1902 Friend sends e-mail, "hi robert,i didn't know until today what your name meant.see you soon..." ----- Wordsmith.org The Magic of Words A.Word.A.Day sward PRONUNCIATION:(sward) MEANING:noun: The grassy surface of land: turf. ETYMOLOGY:From Old English sweard (skin, rind)....
Jul.21.2010 I planted seeds into the dry, grey earth... The hinges on the glass door to the woodstove creak as I place with great care, two small pieces of turf into the blackened hearth. The turf is the earth to me, cut with pride and dried in the precious few summer days that this place can offer up. It feels like nothing I have ever touched before....	Feb.16.2009 Be careful what you wish for Back then the walls were painted the colour of Magnolia. A Magnolia stained with age and neglect. The kitchen, large and airy, was reminiscent of a French film I had seen in an Art House many years prior, where the actors all stood around making dinner and drinking wonderful wine while having...