http://www.city-journal.org/html/new-old-masters-14188.html
Interesting link Wednesday, Mar 30 2016
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Trumpets Sunday, Mar 27 2016
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He is risen! Alleluia!
Even better was getting to sing a Ukrainian hymn for our choir director’s mother, I think we made her day.
Nice sunset tonight Friday, Mar 25 2016
Heavy fog this morning, gave way to a pleasant evening. Almost tempting to sit outside and watch the sunset while supper cooked, but not quite there yet. One of the nice things about a good western view though!
Spring clean up continues apace, very much a team effort. I chopped back some big old burning bushes this year, on the theory the volunteer dogwoods and yew deserved the space more. The brush (log!) piles vanished while I was at work, magic that 🙂
And some peas are in the ground! Also a team effort.
The white crocus vernus seems to be the survivor, good thing it looks good. Yellow apparently gets eaten first, then cream blue/rose shades. Curious.
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Anybody home? Wednesday, Mar 23 2016
Uncategorized 07:35
No, not a little midget dolmen.
Old well, publicly accessible property somewhere in Connecticut or Massachusetts. The flash on the camera is a handy way to judge if there is actually water near the surface, without actually sticking one’s hand in or leaning in too far, the latter tends to make people nervous. Now how deep that water is? Anywhere from 5 to 25 feet, with an average of 10.
21st century life Monday, Mar 21 2016
Uncategorized 19:38
You know, one would think in this age of constant connectivity….you wouldn’t find out in a passing conversation that a neighbor had died a month ago. She kept her horse next door since before I can remember. Last November she moved him, for the winter, she said. I didn’t think much of it, though she had never done so before, because she said she was coming back in the spring and last winter had been brutal, I’d fed for her more than once when she couldn’t get up the hill from where she lived. I was looking for her, it being spring; I suppose I can stop looking now.
(or in other words, cancer is a stone cold killer).
RIP Karen.
Survivor Saturday, Mar 19 2016
Uncategorized trees 14:50
Sugar Maples can stand a lot, this one actually is still alive and it looked like it was going to leaf out once more. At some point the structure will fail (that entire center section is heavy, water logged dead wood), but until then it won’t die.
We might get Thursday, Mar 17 2016
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a foot of snow Sunday night (naturally I have to work, I thought I’d not have that pleasure of that particular drive this winter)
But right now, following a fast moving thunderstorm this late afternoon, the fog is lying in the river valleys, the peepers are singing in the deep swamps and still ponds of the forest, while the stars and the crescent moon look down on the hills where glints of young grass blades shine in their light.
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Over a month ahead Tuesday, Mar 15 2016
Uncategorized gardening 20:34
One of the good things about taking pictures on a regular basis is it does record the annual shifts in timing. The photo below was taken last year on April 16th, I could have taken the exact same photo today on March 15th. It might be a few days off, it looks like there are some big white Jeanne D’Arc crocus in the background, those aren’t up yet. But, still it is definitely not a month, even half a month off. The daylilies are at about the same point, they may never have really been halted by this year’s winter.
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Daylight Savings Sunday, Mar 13 2016
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I still think it is utterly ridiculous. Why not just set the clocks to noon on the half day of the equinox at 45 degrees North/South and have done with it? Ours is not to reason why!
Besides, I was seeing dawn on a routine basis anyway and finally not getting up in the dark. Now I’ll agree, it is nice to be up and watch the sun hit the western hills between a gap in the clouds. A brief flash of gold and purple. Definitely pleasant to see. But still!
I can see you! Friday, Mar 11 2016
Uncategorized northwest Connecticut 07:28
(There were actually two of them, both good sized cows without collars or tags)
About the same location where we saw an untagged cow moose last fall, so possibly the same ones. Unlike deer they are not flighty at all, quite content to stand and watch us and then go about their business.
Acair Fearann 