Arpeggio of Redwings: Chesapeake Seasons: A Guide to Joy

Product Description

Arpeggio of Redwings-Chesapeake Seasons: A Guide to Joy
collects Maryland writer Audrey Scharmen’s prize-winning nature essays. Chronicling the year’s unfolding seasons, Audrey reflects from backyard to beach to Chesapeake Bay. Reading her wry and lyrical observations, you reconnect with nature’s daily miracles. Arpeggio of Redwings-Chesapeake Seasons: A Guide to Joy is a seasonal tonic to refresh your notion of what kind of place this world is. Evocative photos, many original, illustrate the 60 essays.

Review

Audrey Scharmen was a keen observer of nature and a topnotch writer with a poetic turn of phrase. Her columns were always the first thing I looked for in Bay Weekly during the years she wrote for the paper. I am delighted to see them available again.
-Mary Stuart, Native Plant Professional

About the Author

Married to a career military pilot, Audrey Scharmen spent most of her life stationed in the Southwest desert. That arid climate on top of her Depression-era girlhood in Kansas was relieved when the couple retired along Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake Bay was an oasis for the creativity stored in her mind and heart. In Maryland the casings of persistence and grit gave way to nature and gardening and reconnected her to joy. This anthology collects 14 years of stories published in Bay Weekly (nee New Bay Times), a newspaper that has been the meeting place of storytellers and readers.

New Bay Books publisher Sandra Olivetti Martin was for 27 years she was editor and publisher of Bay Weekly, an award-winning, family-owned and hand-crafted feature weekly of the Annapolis capitol region of Chesapeake Bay, reaching more than 50,000 readers in print and online with each issue.