by Sue Schlabach | Aug 10, 2012 | Family, Natural World, Summer, Vermont
I grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania where summers were hot and muggy. When a thunderstorm rolled in I loved to sit on the porch swing watching sheets of rain pour down off the roof, with the lilacs 15 feet away becoming a mere shadow of themselves through...
by Sue Schlabach | Jun 20, 2012 | Artisanal Living, Garden, Natural World, Summer, Vermont
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,...
by Sue Schlabach | May 13, 2012 | Chickens, Color, Eating and Cooking, Family, Garden, Natural World, Photography, Spring, Vermont
I don’t ask for much on Mother’s Day. I often share it with my husband’s birthday, and so I’ve spent the day at a few ballparks over the years, and that’s okay with me. But this morning Mother’s Day dawned with a bit of overcast...
by Sue Schlabach | Apr 30, 2012 | Natural World, Paris, Photography, Spring, Travel, Vermont
It is the day after a longest day. A day of traversing timezones and crossing continents and oceans. So here I am in my own timezone feeling a little like I’ve been run over by a car. Nothing another cup of tea won’t cure. And a few more nights of sleep....
by Sue Schlabach | Jan 24, 2012 | Chickens, Color, Natural World, Vermont, Winter
Whites of January—tinged with blue. I draw back the curtains to the cawing of crows, the papery bark of birches, the tracks of deer under the crabapple tree below our window. The quilt looks like the landscape in the meadow, puckered and pocked after last...
