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2014 in Photos
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Photography allows me to look for the little gifts every day.
All in all an amazing year!
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Another One Bites the Dust
Another One Bites the Dust
The road in front of the house in Rowe was lined with trees for hundreds of years – hundreds. These stately sugar maples provided shade from the western sun in the summer keeping the house quite cool. They provided places for hammocks and swings and places for children to climb. Big birds also nested and fed themselves from those trees – pileated woodpeckers and barred owls plus all of the…
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Winter Solstice and Gifting
Winter Solstice and Gifting
This is my favorite day of the year. It’s the end of the seasons for me and the beginning of new. Today is the shortest day and the end of darkness with each day becoming a few minutes longer until June. It may not seem like minutes of daylight are increasing but I know that we are back on that swing and just knowing that makes the shorter days more tolerable.
Christmas is this week and I have…
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Today's Culinary Experiment
Today’s Culinary Experiment
There are things I have never done. Sometimes it takes being cooped up in the house for a couple of days to give me a little push. There actually were a number of factors that contributed to the butter experiment today.
A couple of days ago, with the impending bad weather, I decided to find Side Hill Farmin Hawley. It’s the closest dairy to me and they sell raw milk. I was thinking cheese…
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Ice, Ice Baby
So this is the view from upstairs this morning. It looks a little worse now. The weather predictions were right so far and I have done a little planning ahead. I’ve been watching the squirrels slide on the ice below the feeders and Sophie walked herself this morning (with difficulty) because I wasn’t going to venture past the shed door. I loaded up the chickens last night, bought some…
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Two Things at Once
Two Things at Once
There are some projects that just don’t go the way you expected. This is another new structure for me – complimentary doubleweave. I pulled out a couple of cones of 5/2 mercerized cotton using the colors that were in the studioand wound my warp. I picked a simple overshot pattern, I figured simple would be better since I would be weaving the pattern in a whole different way.
I started Tuesday…
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Thanksgiving Reflection
I woke up this morning to the silence of a house without power. It wasn’t unexpected. Around 5:00 I decided to get up and stoke the wood stove, try to get things together for coffee without a coffee maker. As I walked down the stairs the lights came on, the furnace fired up and within minutes coffee was hot in my cup. Ahh, little gifts.
The anticipation of this holiday always keeps me awake…
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Birds and Snow
You can always tell when the weather will be bad by the number of birds on the feeders. The chickadees demanded I put them up about a week ago while I was doing a walk about. I relented figuring it was cold enough so the bears might have entered into hibernation.
Yesterday the activity stepped up and we all knew it was because a storm was coming. They are much better forecasters than any…
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Krokgragd Finished
To date this project took me the longest to complete. I started it the first week in August and took it off of the loom last week. It’s stunning and the photographs do not do it justice, you have to feel it. Wool, there’s nothing quite like it.
Initially I did twisted fringe for a finish and HATED it. So I took it all out and got out my Weaver’s Companion – almost on the last page they had…
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For the Record
There are times you do things that are uncomfortable for the sake of family and history. For my entire life I was always the photographer. I took the photographs because I always hated the way I looked in them. If I took the photograph I would never have to be in it – for me a win win.
A little over a month ago I decided that I needed to have a family portrait taken – for many, many reasons.…
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First Snow
I woke up this morning to the first snow of the season. I thought once the sun came up it would go but it’s mid afternoon and it’s still on the ground.
The fact that it snowed was somehow a signal to me to finish up a few projects in need of just a couple of hours of my time. My rug is a row of twisted fringe away from lying on the floor. Skeins of yarn were wound in anticipation of a new…
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#change of season#craft#embroidery#mastering a craft#meditation#patience#perfection#teddy bears#weaving
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Bread and Jelly
I finally broke open a jar of Elderberry Jelly yesterday. When I had made it I thought I was going to be stuck with jars of Elderberry syrup. I put the jars into the cupboard with hopes that given a little time it would set up. Turns out it’s perfect and delicious.
With cooler weather here and the wood stove going it’s also time to start making bread once again. I had high hopes of making it…
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Winding Into Winter
The temperature was at freezing this morning. I lit the stove using last nights coals and made my coffee. The morning temperatures have been in the mid forties for the past few weeks but I start the stove every morning to take the chill off. I love the cheeriness of that fire when I walk into the kitchen.
The past few weeks have been a whirlwind of activity as it always is when winter…
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
As I sat and drank my afternoon cup of coffee I looked over the garden, down into the back forty and Mr. Fox was sitting in the center of the field.
My sister lost two more of her chickens last week so I’ve been paying closer attention. My rooster just started to crow on Saturday and I told him the whole idea was to be quiet and not announce to the wild world around him that he was there. He…
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Fleeting Fall
I hear on the news just now that people should take their fill of the leaves this weekend (a long one here), they are at their peak. With all of the rain and wind the past few days the leaves here are on their way out. There are still enough to photograph but not in the wide panoramas that other years have offered.
This has to be one of my favorite spots in autumn. I love the color of the…
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#afternoon walk#autumn leaves#back forty#crisp air#fall colors#leaf peeping#nature#outdoors#pear tree#photography#Rowe
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Yikes!
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We were moving wood from our wood pile into the shed yesterday when I saw this. Fortunately I was by myself at the time because I screamed good and loud. It really caught me by surprise. I must confess my initial thought was what creepy monster is this?!? Actually I envisioned R.O.U.S. from the Princess Bride.
This poor, little opossum had found a nice, dry den in the center of the woodpile…
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