Maybe it is the summer heat? Hope so… Red and white dogs have filled my little yellow house on the hill this week. Our 14-year-old pup Cub and our daughter’s visiting 10-year-old Brittany Spaniel Casey have been sharing the same space. Cub is sixty something pounds and Casey half his…

Not often and certainly not often enough do we have the opportunity to have dinner at Cloudland Farm in Woodstock, Vermont. The food is incredible and the atmosphere is otherworldly beautiful… Heat enveloped the day. A shroud of humidity encased the earth. Unrelenting. Oppressive. A reservation at a local spot. …

Our new barn has been under construction for the past couple of months. An amazing process to observe the craftsmen from my home studio window. Yesterday the metal roof was completed in an awe inspiring way. I jotted down some immediate thoughts as I watched this exquisite process… Pick-up trucks…

A small sturdy hard wood table built by my husband sat parallel to our kitchen table in our modest Vermont home. Only feet off the floor. Complete with a couple of refinished wooden toddler sized chairs traditionally positioned at each end of the table. …

The Consequences of Déjà Vu…. Hot summer temps had arrived in Woodstock, VT. Vibrant cobalt blue skies stretched overhead. White clouds of cotton suspended while hovering above the Ottauquechee River. The Village Green dotted with festive tents filled with vendors, authors, and freshly stacked books. Coffee available at the first…

A Vermont barn raising 2022. A barn raising as defined by Merriam-Webster is “a gathering for the purpose of erecting a barn.” Gather they did … Our treed and rolling landscape had been excavated over the past many weeks in preparation for a new structure. A red barn designed to…

Vermont summer was in full bloom… The woods appeared dense and dark outside my studio window early Saturday morning. Ominous to my imagination. The canopy of trees shielded the daylight. The sounds that often wake me during the quietest hours roam freely in the deep forest. Remote living. Beautiful and…

Covered Bridges Half Marathon this Sunday…Enjoy the Vermont Ride! Just a couple of country miles from my little house on the hill resides our local ski mountain. An improvised rope tow put Suicide Six on the map as the first ski resort in the United States to have a ski…

Daisies Dotted Armageddon… Somewhere around 5 am I woke for the third time this early morning. The house predictably quiet. Stillness comforted. My 14-year-old rescue didn’t even raise his head as I passed him. Cub is used to my early morning wanderings… Being caught somewhere between the residual of darkness…