all is as it should be....

it has been a long time since the last post....life changes...illness takes all my energy and time...but with this turning things are moving to a new rhythm, not one I would choose, but one I am learning to dance with...the steps are intricate and I am often lost. Bear with me...all is as it should be.

We have had lots of visitors of the four footed kind, but this little porcupine has been a regular visitor....Portica...she loves the edges of things, like the driveway...sort of like a hedgehog which also likes the edges...sort of like me....

12-12-12- almost a year since I posted anything....facebook has sort of taken over.
Since I was a little girl I have walked barefoot in the snow...partly because my mother often walked in the snow in barefeet--because she did not always have shoes...and partly because I like to welcome the first snowfall...welcome in winter...and this year I was not home in Maine when the first little snow fell, so this is the third and I am remined of a place in Japan where the Buddah's foot steps are in a clay tablet...a reminder of my steps..towards the center....



Holding on to the edge of the bay
Ocean beyond



What sees large is small

What small, large




death lies cradled on jasper stone

and all is held together by a spider's web.
Quoddy Head, Maine October 2011

September 2010

John and Chuck built a new grape arbor! Next summer we look forward to a table and chairs under the arbor, and the grapes will have something to grow on other than the fence and anything else they can find to grab on to.

Mama Duck and her almost grown baby girls. A real feat to raise a family with a new bob cat and a coyote pack in the neighborhood. We are missing out grey cat for the past three days and wonder if she was dinner for someone. The mice, voles and chipmunks will not mourn her passing, but we do.

winter kale and winter beets...second planting

The garden is still giving us lots of things to eat.

The barn is finally restored. It took three years and lots of help from local craftsmen plus John and Chuck. Nathan came and painted the high parts and put on a new copula!

We have a few grapes, although most of them got the dreaded black spot and had to be destroyed. I am only planted old Concord from now on. It has been a good year for the garden. I am leaving it in good hands as I get ready to go to Ireland tomorrow.

September 2010

Our old barn is finally painted and has a new copoula! It only took three years to complete it. It was a labor of love and lots of help from local craftsmen and a few ducets....