Abstract and Landscape
Talking to Spring It’s been in the 40s and 50s the last couple of days, and even though there are some sizable snowbanks left, it feels like Mother Nature is ready to keep her annual promise.The light is changing. it lasts longer every day. It seems as if there are even more critters crawling around… Continue reading Talking to Spring
The Saturday after Thanksgiving, and Vermont and got its first foot of snow for the season. Skiers were giddy. The woodstove was roaring, and, almost five years to the weekend after we got back on the grid, the power was out (again). I'd gotten up at 5a.m. on to get the apple cinnamon oatmeal slow… Continue reading Good to Know
Oil on Canvas, 18” x 24” - SOLD Prints and originals (when still available), can be purchased on Etsy here.
Driving by Farms, 9 x 12, Oil on Canvas - SOLD Prints can be purchased on Etsy here.
Prints and originals (when still available), can be purchased on Etsy here.
Working weekends torpedoes your social life, and, when you work at home with most of your work friends in different cities or states your social opportunities are limited to begin with. I compound those factors with a relatively introverted personality — I had almost perfected the shut-in lifestyle before I decided to go back to… Continue reading Watching a Saturday Go By
Driving by Fields on a Summer Evening, Oil, 8”x10” - SOLD Prints and originals (when still available), can be purchased on Etsy here.
To be read in your best Clark W. Griswold voice.
A foot of snow pack, melting fast on a rainy 60 degree, to be followed by an ice storm made for a foggy, beautiful day the other day.
It was -17 this morning -- so cold it froze the batteries in our brand new weather station. These are the mornings our wood cookstove-heated earth-sheltered house wraps us up in a snowbound chrysalis. I got to pat myself on the back for having thought to get the wood bins overloaded Friday morning before the… Continue reading Cocooning
I finally caught a glimpse of high summer as I sped home from craft fair yesterday afternoon. The crops at Earth Sky Time community farm in Manchester, VT are thriving but also reminding me how quickly the summer is getting away.
Two kids playing two different sports, with one assistant coaching the other, and our morning routine has shot to H E double hockey sticks. We have not made the bus more than once in the last three weeks, and Monday was no exception. Monday was a two sport day with a golf tournament two towns… Continue reading Just Another Day
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