APLACECALLEDMERRYMOUNT

It is time once again to leave Merry Mount and time travel to a place called Nohant, a country estate approximately 155 miles south of...

O wüßt ich doch den Weg zurück, Den lieben Weg zum Kinderland! O warum sucht ich nach dem Glück Und ließ der Mutter Hand? Ah! if I but...

When I Am Among the Trees When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the...

4/21/21 Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for...

Today I offer you Song of the Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats, a photo of one of my paintings inspired by the poem, and a few...

Cercis canadensis Spring has sprung and one of the many joys of the season is the blossoming of the "redbud" trees. I suggest you take a...

My “Papaw”, Earnest William Woliver, was born on April 8,1903 in Knoxville, Tennessee to Alex Wooliver (a river barge laborer) and Edith...

In 325CE the Council of Nicaea established that Easter would be held on the first Sunday after the first full moon occurring on or after...

Ever wonder about the origin of the adjective “batty”? Webster’s New College World Dictionary, 4th Edition defines it as “crazy or...

photo by Adam Woliver Spring Nothing is so beautiful as Spring – When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs...

On this March 17th, I, like many Irish Americans, will wear green and celebrate what I suspect to be Irish heritage. I have looked into...

3 . 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3 5 8 9 7 9 3 2 3 8 4 6 2 6 4 3 3 Pi is an infinite decimal and an irrational number. https://decimal.info/digits-of-...

I can’t be with Mother today (3/11/2021) so I have decided to write the following words from my heart. Most nights, just before I fall...

Dear March - Come in - How glad I am - I hoped for you before - Put down your Hat - You must have walked - How out of Breath you are -...

This morning on Tuesday, 2/23/21, we found our cat Moocher lying dead in the snow. She has been with us for over seven years. During the...

As Rett and I drive through rural, central Ohio, and occasionally as we spot or hear the call of a Red-tailed Hawk over the skies at...

Silence is the think tank of the soul. -Gordon Hempton, self-described acoustic ecologist My inspiration for this post flows from an...

The weather forecast for the week of February 7-14, 2021 at Merry Mount is chilling due to a visit from the “polar vortex”. “The polar...

February is heart month and so I have gathered a few “mullings and musings” about the subject. According to early Western philosophy, the...

One of the trains owned by the Smoky Mountain Railroad (KS&E) As a boy, I grew up on two adjacent properties located in the foothills of...