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The Smithsonian Please…..

The Smithsonian Please…..

I can just imagine the headlines: Rainforest Tours in Vermont! The little local newspapers are always on the look out for the quaint or the quirky and unfortunately we may just qualify….again. It has been…

Be Still

Be Still

It is hot and breezy in NYC on these summer mornings. You can smell fried food in the air and the curbs are loaded up with towering trash early in the mornings. The delivery guys…

Not yet….

Not yet….

Summertime. The morning breaks, the critters chatter and chirrup, and we linger on the porch with coffee and news. As the children wander down work begins to beckon from the next room. The scent of…

A Secret in July

A Secret in July

The chickens are nosing around the garden looking for worms and bugs and fallen delicacies fromthe plants. They waddle and scratch, cluck a little and then scratch some more.I have a secret. It’s a garden…

Summer Reading

Summer Reading

It’s sticky here in the middle of the summer. We have had some long sweet sunny hot days and now we have rain. Big gloppy drops falling fast and hard with thunder and lightening in…

Soak up the Sun

Soak up the Sun

Vermont is enjoying the prettiest summer of our five years up here. We had a very wet spring and the mountains are every shade of green nature can dream up. The soil in this high…

One Fair Summer Evening

One Fair Summer Evening

You can only have good ideas when you have enough space. Last week I caught crabs in the sand and walked endless beaches with kids in search of the perfect wave. No time for the…