Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West | 
I decided to see if I had any physical books on my shelves with the word #spring in the title. I have just this one, which I think is appropriate. 🌷🌸🌺#SpringBooks #welcomespring #ReadingResolutions #marchinbooks #litsyphotochallenges #marchphotochallenges @maich @Jess7
Literature is a function of temperament, and thank God there are many kinds of temperament and therefore many kinds of literature. I can speak only for my own, and ...I have determined that my temperament is quiet, recessive, skeptical, and watchful. I don't like big noisy scenes. I avoid riots and mass meetings...I have a hard enough time making sense out of what my life hands me, without going out to hunt for more exciting events.
The only life we know well, the one on which we are the ultimate authority, is our own. The only experience to which we can bear witness is that which we have personally endured and observed.
As the country at large grows more stressful as a dwelling place, the quiet, remoteness, and solitude of a week on a wild river become more and more precious to more and more people.
Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came from. I was used to dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors--tan, rusty red, toned white...I was used to a sun that came up over mountains...
pickThis library book sale find is a collection of essays to sip and savor. My first Wallace Stegner (I plan to read more of his work). I take interest in reading about different parts of the country, and especially like reading about the West (I have been known to subscribe to Sunset magazine just because, even though I live on the Gulf Coast).
Is it cheating to use a book with a song lyric as the title for this challenge? #alliterativetitles #marchintoreading
pickI lived in Colorado for 12 years & know Stegner was right: if not born to it, one must learn to appreciate the Western U.S., its aridity, its color palette, its enormous scale, its ethos. He writes beautifully about the West & his family's sojourning in that land. The essay "Letter, much too late," addressed in appreciation to his Mother, grabbed me today on my Mom's birthday, the 1st since her death last year. It's a wonderful essay collection.
A recent western acquisition. Book of essays. "The American West as Living Space" is the one I really want to read.
The longer the title, the shorter the book. At least in my personal library! #longtitle #booktober #octphotochallenge
