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  • The Seasons Are Changing

    Autumn Moon by Gael Stuart

    Last night there was a cold, clear full moon a-risin’. No longer evident was the golden richness of autumn’s lunar orb. As I snapped the brilliant gleam over a bleak landscape, its reflection on stark trees seemed to signal a resting time for my little corner of the planet.

  • More Thoughts of Autumn

    Warbler, by Gael Stuart

  • Sudoku

    Notice to our loyal Crossword and Sudoku players: Silver Planet will no longer be hosting the Universal Crossword Puzzle or the Sudoku Daily. Instead, we will provide you with the following New Daily Crossword. We regret that we no longer will provide Sukoku. We hope you enjoy the new puzzles, and apologize for any inconvenience.

  • Crossword Puzzle

    Notice to our loyal Crossword and Sudoku players: Silver Planet will no longer be hosting the Universal Crossword Puzzle or the Sudoku Daily. Instead, we will provide you with the following New Daily Crossword. We regret that we no longer will provide Sukoku. We hope you enjoy the new puzzles, and apologize for any inconvenience.

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  • Autumn

    Here’s an excerpt from “The Autumn,” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861):

    Go, sit upon the lofty hill,
    And turn your eyes around,
    Where waving woods and waters wild
    Do hymn an autumn sound.
    The summer sun is faint on them —
    The summer flowers depart —
    Sit still — as all transform'd to stone,
    Except your musing heart.

  • Blooms: The Last Rose of Summer

    My friend, who lives a few miles south of me, has a lovely array of flowers in her garden. Her yellow rosebush is particularly prolific. Her beautiful variegated roses sometimes try to outdo their gorgeous yellow sisters. Personally, I think there is an unseen, secret flora competition among my friend’s blooms to determine who will be the last rose of summer once autumn has arrived with wind and shiver-inducing temperature drops. This year the winner is . . . both!

  • A Tale of Two Kitties

    Are any kitty lovers among my readers? Although I think of myself as a dog person, I do subscribe to the belief that a home is not a home without a cat. And I am not the first person to allude to the Charles Dickens novel in today’s subject line.

  • Leisure Passes, Time Passes, Life Passes

    Gavin Ewart (1916–1995) was a comic poet of England—lesser known in the United States. Born in London and educated at Christ’s College, Cambridge, he grew up reading the classics and became a writer who penned inventive scenes and clever sonnets about family life, sex, (certain shops in Britain banned his more erotic verse) animals, and the indignities of old age. He wrote with a satirical edge and great insight.

  • The Long and Short of It

    I have been following an interesting poem online. It’s a poetic effort using the newest forms of electronic communication—texting and social networking—to form a poem known as “The Longest Poem in the World.” The brainchild of Romanian Web developer Andre Gheorghe, it’s a Web site creating a gigantic poem of “found” words.

  • Honoring My Father

    I collect cookbooks. Now, I’m not known for my cooking, though I do bake some wonderful cheesecakes that do very well at my church’s dessert auctions. The youth of our church decided to produce a cookbook as a fundraiser. We were all asked to provide recipes. As I’m not a person who makes up recipes, I was a bit stumped until I remembered my father’s cookbook. I’m not talking a published cookbook, but a collection of recipes in Dad’s own handwriting. Soups, stews, potpies, vegetable side dishes—to say they took me back in time is an understatement.

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