Fred First
FRED FIRST: Still is Still Moving . . .
We just don't quite know when the VAN will be at the door
THE RECAPThe storyline for the past 6 months has been the tale of our discovery that living...
FRED FIRST: Turning Points of Note From a Season of Change
First night: Middle of April: The sliding doors are open with nothing but the screens to...
FRED FIRST: What Was A Half Million Acres of Cypress Swamp
The transformation of the Missouri Boot HeelA year from today, I will be living in...
FRED FIRST: There Are Places I Remember
The Moods and Memories of MountainsOn reaching the summit of the long incline up from...
Within Our Grasp – Learning To Live With What We Have
We are coming to the end of many familiar and comfortable ways of life in...
FRED FIRST: Leafing The World Behind
I mentioned recently that I am using a camera app on my iPhone called NightCap Camera. I made the claim that I intended to...
FRED FIRST: Family Time – Black Mountain North Carolina
We recently spent a few days away, a few hours from home, with both our children (and one spouse) and two grand-children in Black...
FRED FIRST: Changing of The Guard
The seasonal gears are shifting. Can you feel it?Life transitions, day by shorter day, from turbo overdrive of summer to the slow uphill crawl...
FRED FIRST: Tending The Melodies of A Lifetime
The advent of the COVID weeks, then months, then years wreaked untold hardship and abnormality for humans everywhere. If there is a silver lining...
FRED FIRST: Meeting New Neighbors: Giving Them Names
I noticed this odd creature on our porch this week. Both Seek (by iNaturalist) and Google Lens identify this creature pictured here as a brown rove beetle. I...
FRED FIRST: Just Look For It: Horseweed
Once you recognize it, it is everywhereI have one purpose here: to cause a single reader to discover a common plant growing right outside...