Behind the garden
I was doing some work behind the garden a few days ago. The fences behind the compost bins are rotting away. Tearing out those boards and piling them up. There is also some tree...
Category: trees
March morning
This tree is in the willow grove – or the Immanent Grove as I call it, after a location in Ursula LeGuin’s The Wizard of Earthsea. I walk past it occasionally on my daily...
Noticing
A new thought – I should really know how many trunks there are on the birch at the top of our driveway. So I counted them. Five. And there’s another birch next to it,...
Land and water, December 30th
I walked down to the beach at Salt Pond yesterday. I observed changes in the landscape due to the winter storm last week. The first, and most obvious, was this huge root mass, taller...
Trees and snow
What a storm. We are having perfect weather here for Christmas Eve, in the 20’s (F) and snowing lightly. The power is out. But we have a generator and a woodstove. No trees fell...
Domestic December
Yesterday the wind kicked up and it really started storming after dark. I took this photo of waves coming in during my morning walk. It was hard to fall asleep last night in the...
First snow
A gloomy day. Snow early this morning changed to a cold rain, temps in the 30s. We went grocery shopping. It takes all day and is not my favorite thing to do. Although I...