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Author: Adra Fisher
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It’s time to fly
The wind and I go way back, and our relationship is ... complicated. Throughout my life, this invisible but very tangible force of nature has at various times lulled, soothed, thrilled, frustrated, agitated, and terrified me (not unlike my long-gone cat Juniper — may she rest forever in peace — but that’s a story for…
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Taking stock in the new year
As the first month of the new year slips away, I realize I spent January taking stock, sifting through the physical and emotional accumulations of these past few years — years I can only describe as surreal. While rummaging recently in my art room piles, I came upon this watercolor-and-pen still life dated July 24,…
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Wintertime Whish
The recent arctic freeze had us worried about the neighborhood cats that frequent our yard and drink from our ancient birdbath, which quickly turned into a miniature skating rink as the temperatures tanked and the snowflakes swirled. After a couple of anxious days without sighting these ferociously independent felines, I’m happy to report they are…
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Revising our Christmas Myths
Happy Holidays? That depends on who you ask. For many of our fellow Kentuckians (and citizens all over the globe), it’s not a festive time. Loss of life and property from natural and man-made disasters, diseases, mass shootings, and wars tends to dampen even the most indomitable spirits among us. If we are fortunate enough…
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The limitless sky
We’ve had some unusual skies this November: a total lunar eclipse (a.k.a., “Blood Moon”), wildfire smoke, heavy fogs, out-of-nowhere snow showers, but my favorites have been the stunning sunsets. Autumn and winter bring to Clark County the most vivid sunups and downs of the year, thanks to changing weather patterns that quell the profuse scattering…
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One final fall photo...
When you look out your kitchen window every day at such a beautiful specimen tree, it’s hard not to take pictures of it — especially on an early November morning when the rising sun is burning off a gauzy gray fog. It’s a Gingko, of course, a species about which you may think you’ve heard…
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Our scenic south side
Like most everyone else in Clark County, I missed the Sept. 7 Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation walking tour of our beautiful Thomson Neighborhood on the southern edge of downtown. But I didn’t miss Harry Enoch’s Sept. 14 WinCity Voices article about it — and for that I am grateful.
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Change is good
Last year in this space I was gushing about gingkoes, this year I’m mad about maples. We are surrounded by beauty in Clark County — especially in autumn. When I made this small watercolor on rough-textured paper, I thought it lacked oomph, so I pulled out my black pen and started making little dots. As…
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Home is where the heart is
It’s been 16 years since I came home to Winchester, and while I’ve never thought of myself as territorial, apparently I am. The house I grew up in, conveniently located across the street, is now owned and occupied by a lovely young couple — but I still consider it mine. When they do things like…
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What kind of society are we?
Three summers into the pandemic now, I should be used to it, but I’m not. In fact, as my own COVID-19 fatigue grows and mutates, it seems to be getting worse. Not the pandemic itself, mind you, but our collective response to it. How, I wonder, is it possible that as a society we continue to…