Room With A View

This is the view from my bedroom window at the cabin. It’s a window seat and some days I believe I could sit there all day. The only thing better, of course, is to go downstairs and sit on the beach or the pier.
I’ve been lucky enough to have this view a few days a year [...]

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The First Lemon

I love Myers lemons. I mean, I really love them. My neighbor has a tree smattered in yellow like polka dots. They never eat them. I take them away in full bowls. I squeeze them in water, baste salmon, stir lemon thyme pasta and occasionally make lemon squares.
Three years ago I properly planted seeds I had squeezed from [...]

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Mother Nature

I love the craziness of my garden, the way it takes on a life of its own from something I created and others I didn’t. This raised bed was made from discarded 2 x4s my neighbor and I found. The small green wood box was  discarded in the street as well. I painted it green. The bottom has fallen out, [...]

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New Blog Banner (It Smells Like Home)

It’s summer. I was tired of looking at the misty autumn river scene on my banner. So I edited in my favorite view in the whole world. It’s a bit grainy, but I don’t mind.
The pier on the left is our family pier. It’s fairly new, 10 years or so. My grandfather built the original [...]

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Cafe Flowers (or My Water Cooler)

Today is my two year anniversary of keeping the cafe flowers . Two years ago I sat and sipped coffee beside one of these enormous cement pots. A dead gardenia bush stuck from it’s center while an array of cigarettes and detritus floated about it. It was appalling.

I went inside at the urging of a waitress I knew and [...]

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