Ease Into Fall with these Simple Life Hacks

 Believe or not, the fall season is upon us. Though it feels like the summer totally flew by and none of us are ready to say goodbye to the sun and say hello to chillier, dark weather, there are a few things you can do to make the transition easier.

Oh Wild October Wind

 Oh wild October wind With your breath of fury Take the autumn leaves And make them all scurry Carry them with you Along pastures and fields By brooks and streams Where the Birch trees kneel Bend the Maples Make their branches sway But leave the wildflowers For another day Spare

How The Trout Lily Got It’s Spots

 One day in early May The Trout Lily was heard to say Why are my leaves dappled this way? The Spring Beauty nearby replied with a sigh The answer lies in the meadows green Where the wily fox cannot glean Beyond the valley and in a stream Are fish so

A Summer’s Fair

 On summer days the summer’s rays Embark on slips of clover And the cottage receives the shadowy leaves From fruit blossoming trees all over The white clouds above in a rhapsody of love Rise up like a new found romance As robins sing the orchards swing And bluebells launch into

Apple Picking Season

 The falling rain Slowly starts to gain On the colored leaves Dangling in the trees It’s autumn in the country As insects flee nature’s bounty For Jack Frost will waste them too Before the night is through The leaves desert the trees Submitting to the breeze And begin their journey

All Trees Must Relent

 I hear the autumn breeze Whispering softly to the trees Let go, let go, let go of your leaves Not yet, not yet reply the trees Our leaves are too beautiful to die Even if the time is nigh But die, but die they must Said the breeze with a

Natural Beauty: Andrea Kolpaska’s designer jewellery

 Growing up in socialist Czechoslovakia, creativity was not always celebrated the way it should be. “Art was very much suppressed by the system so there were only a few artists that were able to survive” said jewellery designer, Andrea Kolpaska. She didn’t let that challenge stop her. She attended the