With maple trees, pussy willows and many other spring plants finally blooming, the girls were very much out and about looking for food...
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AROUND THE FARM: Video capturing the bees a-buzzing, in slo-mo
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AROUND THE FARM: when the Scilla return
Spreading by seed, the winds blow their tiny offerings far and wide. So much so they can eventually cover acres, given enough time. But like most good things they don't last long.
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THROUGH MY LENS: last hurrah
Winter is trying to have one last laugh, it seems. Fortunately here-unlike in some other parts of the country-it’s more of a chuckle. Though more snow is on the way today, those April showers will …
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AROUND THE FARM: Letting the Garden Grow
A photograph or story or poem can be crafted, controlled, tweaked to the artist's particular desires. At some point you can be done, content with a finished piece or product. But a garden has a mind of its own.
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This Country Life: Ties that Bind
What's my purpose here? Should I stay? And if I do, what, if anything, do I do with it all?
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Waking Up in the Green Room: On the Comforts (and Questions) of Home
I’m traveling this week with my boyfriend to Pennsylvania, staying in the house where he grew up while his parents are away in Colorado. They had a beautiful sunroom added on to their house several …
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THROUGH MY LENS: wait and see
Honeybees dance along a pair of delicate lace curtains hanging in my bathroom window. They are kind of an old-fashioned thing, lace curtains, but I love how the light moves through them on a sunny day, casting shadows …
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Around the Farm: Something In the Air
This morning I took a walk through the fields for the first time in quite awhile, feeling somehow different, lighter, than I have in awhile. The air and sky didn’t feel as heavy, it wasn’t …
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LAST THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: looking toward the horizon
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do, with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver With the arrival of another new year, this quote from one of my favorite poets has been …
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Around the Farm: Learning to love a vegetable garden
Even though Christmas is a just week away, my vegetable garden is still alive and kicking. Not all of it, of course: The tomatoes and their warm-weather siblings are long gone. But the kale, chard, broccoli, …
