Opinion

Autumn recollections

“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye…

Saluda News & Notations - Bonnie J. Bardos

Finding peace in the garden

“Such trees as there were allowed their leaves to fall—they fell unnoticed—seeming to promise, not without bitterness, to…

Saluda News & Notations - Bonnie J. Bardos

Signs of October’s end 

“The stars had stopped falling, just the Milky Way up there so crisp, and turning. The fire had…

Saluda News & Notations - Bonnie J. Bardos

A warm welcome home

falling leaves hide the path so quietly… ~ John Bailey, “Autumn Haiku”    After a couple of weeks…

Saluda News & Notations - Bonnie J. Bardos

The turning of fall

The porch swing hangs fixed in a morning sun that bleaches its gray slats, its flowered cushion whose…

Saluda News & Notations - Bonnie J. Bardos

Snapping turtle eggs in the moonlight

…And the sun sets, dropping behind the mountain, leaving a blue ridge, a dimming thread of gold… ~…

Saluda News & Notations - Bonnie J. Bardos

Buckets of rain, buckets of mosquitoes

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we…

Saluda News & Notations - Bonnie J. Bardos

Happy shouts on a playground, signs of autumn, and a wily raccoon

“Look, in the early light, Down to the infinite Depths of the deep grass-roots; Where the sun shoots…

Saluda News & Notations - Bonnie J. Bardos

Days are getting shorter, and I’m turning into my parents

‘If you can hold all the pain of the world in your heart, but never forget the vastness…

Saluda News & Notations - Bonnie J. Bardos

Summer lingers on

“I saw the clear afternoon, casting the shadows of chairs one way in the room, so that the…