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Taste the Color

Taste the Color

Outside….I go there over and over all day long with Oscar our puppy. Oscar is just the excuse. I love all the color wrapping around our smallholding. We are surrounded by sugar maples and they…

A Country Minute

A Country Minute

Graduation was lovely. It started at good with the diploma and then just kept getting better with friends and family and jolly toasts and warm funny stories. The weather was sunny and cool and as…

May

May

The trees are covered with tiny leaves. The Maples are revealing their mapley selves with these miniature perfectly shaped leaves. They are almost transparent at this stage. The greens are fresh and lacy and they…

Springtime

Springtime

We got a little snow up here this weekend, but it was all gone by afternoon. It wasn’t even enough to make us crabby, because we have blooming crocuses and daffodils who are right behind….

Charlie and Daisy

Charlie and Daisy

We do not live on a farm. We live in a high end little picturesque village in Vermont filled with people who moved here from somewhere else. Most of them came from Manhattan and more…

The Fifth Season

The Fifth Season

Schools got cancelled last week for mud. Half of Vermont lives on a dirt road and the buses just couldn’t get through after three long days of pounding rain. The snow runs off the sides…

It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane….

It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane….

There are five seasons in New England. There are the same four that everyone knows about plus mud. When the snows melt and the rivers start to flow again, things get pretty muddy down here…