Embracing the Seasons:
Memories of a Country Garden
Gunilla Norris
BlueBridge, Jun 9 2015, $14.95
ISBN: 9781629190051
At Gunilla Norris’ farmhouse, frogs announce in song the arrival
of spring. Song birds join nature’s
choir celebrating the rebirthing of life with Joy to the World (Three Dog
Night). Moving forward through the
months, the peonies need stakes to support them as they show that spring has
given way to summer. Displaying the
warmth of this season vines grow, cicadas click and black snakes crawl until
the months culminate in a harvest. Fall
takes center stage with colorful leaves depicting this quarter that climaxes
with Thanksgiving. Finally dark winter
brings cold and stormy weather yet also the beauty of the sculptured naked ash
trees. Late in the season the thaw
begins and wildflowers start to bloom reminding readers that the frogs and
birds will sing their song of spring.
Gunilla Norris celebrates life through the cycle of the seasons in
this poetic memoir; as the author offers an uplifting look at the joys she
found in nature’s constant changes at a country garden. Though similar in philosophy and method to
Ms. Norris’ A Mystic Garden, fans of lyrical meditations will appreciate
reflections on Embracing the Seasons and do likewise
with our personal fond contemplations (like skiing and sleighing down the hills
of the Bronx in the 1960s winters).
Harriet Klausner
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