{"id":8517,"date":"2022-08-13T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/?p=8517"},"modified":"2022-08-13T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T14:00:46","slug":"first-snow-weather-reports-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/first-snow-weather-reports-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRST SNOW…Weather Reports & Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

first snow\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n
A Chapbook by Lynda McKinney Lambert<\/h5>\n

Weather Reports & Reviews<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

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My grandmother knew the name of every bird by note and call who ever sang to the sun in the fields by her Wisconsin country home, and she knew the names of the trees by bark and needle and leaf in the woods. In these days of urban desolation and digital isolation, it is harder and harder to keep hold of the once-common natural knowledge. Here in Lynda Lambert’s poetry the vitality of the seasons are still felt, seen and heard. Lambert notices the colors and sounds that surround us, those sights and odes that barely register through our buds and pads and windshields, and she names them for us and she remembers them for us. In these poems, Lambert calls her readers to celebrate the blue spruce in the morning fog, to “stand in darkness \/ urging Blood Moon-arise” and to be alive in the old ways. “It feels like we have been here,” she says of one icy morning, “for a thousand years.” In these pages, we have.<\/p>\n

–Russell Streur<\/strong>, editor\u00a0Plum Tree Tavern<\/em>, author\u00a0Fault Zones<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

About the Author<\/h3>\n
Lynda McKinney Lambert, is a retired college professor of fine arts and humanities. Retirement from teaching opened the door for her to write full-time. She explores the themes of landscape, mythology, pilgrimage, fine arts and literature in her writing. She loves walking through a meadow of wild flowers; gazing at a star-strewn sky; spending solitary winter days with her husband, Bob, their 6 rescued cats and 2 rescued dogs.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Poetry Treasures 2:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>WordCrafter Poetry Anthology<\/em><\/h4>\n
Editors: Kaye Lynne Booth & Robbie Cheadle,\u00a0 2022.\u00a0Buy it HERE<\/a><\/h5>\n

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Read MORE about this ANTHOLOGY and more poems by Lynda\u00a0 Here<\/a><\/h3>\n

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BONUS:<\/h2>\n

Lynda\u2019s April 2022 Newsletter \u2013\u00a0Read it NOW.<\/a><\/h3>\n

Lynda’s August 2022 Newsletter<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

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Get Lynda\u2019s latest book!<\/p>\n

Songs for the Pilgrimage:<\/em>\u00a0 Apple Books<\/a><\/p>\n

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Lynda\u2019s books at Bookshop.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Lynda\u2019s e-Books at Smashwords<\/a><\/p>\n

Lynda\u2019s Books at Amazon<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u00a9Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2022. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

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I appreciate your courtesy.<\/p>\n

Make my day – Leave a Comment!<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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