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the crossroads of art and lifeDachshunds on Parade
The town of Stafford, Vermont, holds one of our favorite parades of the year the weekend closest to the Fourth of July. Last Saturday rain threatened, but held off. And still a crowd formed around the green in Strafford's upper village to see kilted men and women play...
Jump In
No matter how cold the water is, my daughter will always jump in. I admire that quality in kids. This weekend it will be sweltering hot and we'll be camping on a lake. I plan to take a tip from the youngsters and make the leap without dipping a toe.
Laboring on the Fourth
You'd think it was Labor Day and not the Fourth of July for all the work we did today. I suppose a sunny day off makes us put on our small farm hats and deal with the tasks at hand. Today that meant working on the electric fence to keep one lamb—who is intent on jail...
Summer Colo{u}rs
It is Summer Colour Week at Poppytalk (our Canadian friends spell color the British way) and I've been browsing my collection and shooting some images with color in mind. Today this favorite from last summer's weekend in the Adirondacks made the cut for Red Day and...
Summer’s Eve Wedding
An early summer evening after heavy rain. The perfect night for vows to be shared, poems read, music heard. The scene: a renovated barn and its lush wooded grounds in rural Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The wedding cake was whoopie pies. The feast specialized in vegetarian...
The Reveal
I spent the winter and spring on a labor of love which came into bloom a few weeks ago at the wedding of my brother-in-law Daryl, to the marvelous Deborah. Remember all those ruffles I was making in April? They turned into flowers. Dozens of raw silk flowers, that I...
Welcome Summer
In six months the sun will be setting at 4 pm and I'll be longing for this day. The first day of summer dawned with the promise of intense heat. There was barely dew on the grass when we went out to eat breakfast in the garden. The lambs got busy grazing, sensing that...
Banner Year for Foxgloves
I've been on the road. And up to my eyeballs in work and life. It's a fine savory stew, my life, with many ingredients I wouldn't wish to remove. If only there were more hours in the day to do all the things I long to do. This weekend we witnessed a beautiful and...
See Original Art Here
- AVA Gallery, (New Hampshire) Scaffolding Exhibit through March 1, 2025
- Sparrow Art, All that Glitters Exhibition, Middlebury, Vermont through April 5, 2025
- First Branch Coffee (Vermont)
- In my home studio by appointment
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- Making Flax Sculptures - 1 day workshop, March 1, Lebanon, NH
- More Abstracted Landscape with Acrylics - 1 day workshop, March 15, Pomfret, VT
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