They went on, and farther on, and they waded through rivers above the knee, and they saw neither sun nor moon, but they heard the roaring of the sea.… It was mirk, mirk night, there was no starlight, and they waded through red blood up to the knee, for all the blood that’s shed on…
TRAVEL JOURNAL 6: Maine – The Ocean
The next part we spent by the shore. The Maine beaches are so bright and beautiful! And the day was so warm that the water was actually warmer than in Florida as the tide was rising over the hot beach stones. It’s so beautiful! The colors, the textures! The gravely sand and pebbles and shells!…
TRAVEL JOURNAL 5: The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden
We went to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden our first day. It’s very exclusive – you have to make reservations beforehand, and there’s no sign for the entrance. They have several layers of security docents with lists of people with reservations to go through before you can park and walk to the garden. It is…
TRAVEL JOURNAL 4: Maine
We have never been to Maine before. It’s so far up North, and a little out of the way of everything else, but we really loved it! Everyone is so friendly in the little towns there, and everywhere is so pretty. It has a certain set of colors to the landscape, and a quality of…
TRAVEL JOURNAL 4: Connecticut
[Confession – I didn’t realize I couldn’t correctly spell Connecticut until I started writing about it here- yikes!!! How did I get to my age this way?!] We did eventually end up in Connecticut, using our vintage 1973 Connecticut state map, with advertisements along the edge for businesses that had closed decades ago. We stayed…
TRAVEL JOURNAL: Pennsylvania
The following parts of our trip were not documented, due to the phone charging cord having become lost under the seats of the car, so you will just have to imagine our uneventful drive over to French Creek State Park in Elverson, Pennsylvania, with us listening to Tress of the Emerald Sea read aloud by…
TRAVEL JOURNAL 2: Virginia
We had already been here on our last camping venture up North a couple of years ago – this time at least we had invested in a new camp stove, and we didn’t have to worry about a propane explosion like last time! It gives me confidence to know some life problems CAN be solved!…
Travel Journal 1: North Carolina
The girls and I have forsaken Florida at the moment, and the triple-digit summer, and life problems, etc, for perhaps one of our last travel adventures all together! As great as this sounds, things can still get a little contentious several hours into an 8-hour car ride, believe it or not. Our first stop was…
It Begins With A Seed…
I keep reminding myself…. It all starts with a tiny seed. The hopes and dreams of the future begin so small and insignificant, and you can never be sure if they have the spark of life until you plant them and they begin to grow. If carefully tended to, they will take on a will…
Red Velvet Cake With Natural Color
I am so excited to at last share this recipe! It all began when Rose asked for Red Velvet mini-cupcakes for her birthday party last year. We checked out all the baking books we could find from the library (this took up most of the floor space in the yurt), spent some time on various…
Forever
So many changes have happened in my life over the past year. Ethan and I are getting a divorce, and I am facing the prospect of leaving behind this land that I have loved – finding new homes for all my animals, saying goodbye to my garden, finding a new place to live and wondering…
Gifts of Spring
My heart has been so full of the sweet beauty of the spring lately – all the flowers and sweet smells, and the still cool milky nights under the waxing moon, with the first little fireflies winking in the dark places under the oak trees, looking bright but lonely in the big night. O sweet…
Toadstools And Fairy Rings 