The Humming Bird Herb Garden

In the background I hear the tv…. Before I say one more thing and transport you to Wildflower, here with me for a moment… Let me just say… NO JUSTICE…

Adventures In Apple Experiments

Just sitting here after the rain…  Alone, with the smell of apples, molasses, maple sugar, and cinnamon, wafting through the house, getting caught in the air bubbles of the old…

My Old Country Road

Quarantine road runs long as does the road from the public street all the way to the old farm house. Still, we are stuck here. Prisoners of a contagion we…

Communing With The Trees

Surrounded by woods, I like to go out and walk the farm road. I have built an “understanding” with the forest trees over time here. When I go out we…

Lavender Lemon Balm Tea

The sun is like a big glorious yellow bird in the sky, and the blue is marked by small puffy clouds…. I can see the buds on the trees reaching…

A Little Bit Of Pretty On A Grey Day

Some pretty goes a long way when it has been too much gray and quarantine… Yesterday, I went out in the sunshine, hung out with the dog, and collected violets…

Shifting Season

Yesterday, we had sunshine…. Yesterday the sky was blue and I watched a pair of randy robins for some time out by the edge of my woods… Today, the weather…

Yes I can!

I feel a sense of pride. Tonight Dr. Farmer  Moomin, and I taught ourselves to can. We explored our new water canner with some bought apples. I am grateful to…

Waiting For Dandelions.

Quarantine continues here in Boston. Each day, the air gets cleaner. We have had weird weather freak snow storms…. At one point we lost power due to weather. But today,…

New Life, The Wheel Turns

The jonquils dance today in the cold early spring  breeze. It’s so  nice to see them. We have been here so long now, I greet them in the spring as…

Cutting It Down

It may be winter, but we have no snow. At the moment we are dealing with temperatures in the 50s. Only last week it hit 65 degrees in Antarctica. And…

My no good very bad valentines day

This is just not my day… It started off terrible. First at about 2 am one of the dogs crawled into bed and ultimately pushed me right out. Got back…

Wildflower In The Mist

The mist has once again come to visit, it is playing in the forest with the trees. It rolled in with the wet and cold as if it were a…