A Year at the Lake

Rating:
Summary: A Delightful Experience
Review: A Year at the Lake is a breath-taking chronicle of the author's deep appreciation of nature and of her own love of learning. I
found myself laughing out loud as I read Tina's encounters with the critters around her natural habitat. ("I am still not inclined to get too close to them. I know my reaction to crawly things is not completely rational.") and awestruck with her poetic accounts of the endless small miracles that Nature reveals when we simply stop and notice. Tina's book is likely to inspire you to quit your job, buy a pair of binoculars, move to the country, and simply watch and listen for a year. At least it did me. I'm sending it to all the backyard naturalists and aficionados of Southern wit on my gift list this year.

Rating:
Summary: A Delightful Experience
Review: A Year at the Lake is a breath-taking chronicle of the author's deep appreciation of nature and of her own love of learning. I
found myself laughing out loud as I read Tina's encounters with the critters around her natural habitat. ("I am still not inclined to get too close to them. I know my reaction to crawly things is not completely rational.") and awestruck with her poetic accounts of the endless small miracles that Nature reveals when we simply stop and notice. Tina's book is likely to inspire you to quit your job, buy a pair of binoculars, move to the country, and simply watch and listen for a year. At least it did me. I'm sending it to all the backyard naturalists and aficionados of Southern wit on my gift list this year.

Rating:
Summary: Southern Climate
Review: I loved this diary of the south-eastern climate. Not having ever visited the South or the East, I was very taken and involved with Ms. Simms details of her natural clime. Being an amateur poet/philosopher myself, I also enjoyed her humorous take on things and the wonderful quotes she included in this work. Since so few of us get the luxury of meditating amongst "all the little live things" for a day, not to mention a year, I invite everyone to become an armchair naturalist like I was, and read this book!

Rating:
Summary: Southern Climate
Review: I loved this diary of the south-eastern climate. Not having ever visited the South or the East, I was very taken and involved with Ms. Simms details of her natural clime. Being an amateur poet/philosopher myself, I also enjoyed her humorous take on things and the wonderful quotes she included in this work. Since so few of us get the luxury of meditating amongst "all the little live things" for a day, not to mention a year, I invite everyone to become an armchair naturalist like I was, and read this book!