SEASONS
As the air grows warmer, and the trees begin to clothe themselves in greenery, I am reminded of the perpetual ebb and flow of the seasons around us. Just as surely as summer explodes into fall, I know that fall will eventually fade into winter which, in turn, will yield to spring's regeneration. Many people complain about certain seasons, or various aspects of them, but I have grown to appreciate them all. Just as there are challenges to every season, there are also just as many blessings that can be found in each one. Each season is unique and offers opportunities or tasks that are specific to that time, and that time only. People who lived during the 18th and 19th centuries understood this much better than we do in this modern age. They paid close attention to the changes of seasons and the phases of the moon. "Moon seasons" governed when the best time to fell wood, plant various crops, or drive cattle to market would be. There were things that our anc