First snow of the season
Driving home, three good songs on the radio and then perfect light. I couldn’t stop smiling.
I pulled on my new snowboots, and dashed out the door with my camera thudding against my chest.
The light was so perfect it took my breath away.
A momentary break in the clouds, and pure gold.
Everything was […]
Ready, get set…
In nineteen different places today, all at once. The sky is blue, but winds are roaring up our valley making the birch leaves show their silver underbellies. By my computer on the bar in the kitchen are a row of ripe peaches. Outside hawks are calling. It’s getting ready time: laminating folders and organizing books, […]
Tuesday Notebook
Kneel down, hold the ground in your hands
or reach up and hold meteors in your glance
as they plummet through the dark night.
Be thankful.
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This morning the air felt scrubbed clean after last night’s rain. I went bleary eyed to my studio, pulling on one of DH’s t-shirt sand a pair of old sweatpants, with the […]
The start of August
Peaches with juice spilling on the soapstone when we cut them; blueberries fat and sweet; cinnamon swirl toast from the farmer’s market, hot with butter. Summer mornings make me happy. We sit around sipping coffee, flipping through various papers, making each other laugh. It’s been an entire week of sunshine. This means: I’m finally starting […]
can’t help myself: a picture post
The garden, underway. Sore arms & DH has a sunburn. Bean played all afternoon with his tractor in the newly tilled dirt. A long way before raised beds and fence posts, but closer than we were. So good to be outside. So good to have a man who, because he know’s my heart is set […]
Day by day
Saturday: It hit me in the middle of the night, up again, one more time, because of the small inconsolable wailing and flailing of a sharp elbow having, night terror dreaming, teething Bean, that I was officially one step away from going insane.
I told DH as much, in a whimpering whisper, having already burst […]
Breathing space
Snowmelt dripping
Tattered clouds
Setting Sun
Snow angel
Evening light
Walking home
Wanting to dream
My eyes ache tonight, from crying and laughing both, and I’m on the verge of being sick. I spent the weekend away with a close friend, talking over sushi and Japanese beer, about the way things really are. How everything in my life right now is like a delicate broken china cup, held together with […]
Preparing
Bean and I spent the day outdoors under wintry skies. Alternately stacking wood and lying supine, our faces soaking up sunlight as it shone through torn clouds. Bean loves to lie like this, head to head with me, watching the clouds pass. The trees at the edge of the meadow made a crown of […]
Nothing, but this
It is late afternoon when I get home. The sun is setting like a vermilion stain across the horizon. We go out into the field, all three of us, walking in the folded grass. Today the air is unusually warm and soft, like early fall.
We lie in the field looking up at the […]