Checking on the Bluebird

A sleepy bee, planning to spend the night with its face buried in red clover. One could do worse.

Phoebe and I placed the starved baby bluebird with its foster family the evening of July 17. I gave it a day and a half to settle in, then went out early in the afternoon of July 19 to check and see how things were going. I figured it would either be a lot better or dead, but either way

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A Bird in Need

I was taking a run down Dean’s Fork, with the ulterior
motive of checking a bluebird box at my friend Harvey’s man-cabin. In the spring of 2017, they’d put up
a decorative box on a little post, never thinking anything might use it, when a
bluebird pair decided it was just the thing and started hauling grass into it.
That would have been OK, but the box was only about two feet off the ground,

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Summer Flowers and Shameless Commerce

I can't find a time of day when I want to sit down and write a blogpost. I'd rather be loping along, grabbing images of late July. I've fallen into my delicious stay-at-home routine which keeps me healthy, happy and wise, if not materially wealthy. I wake up with the first cardinal at 5 and am out on the road by 6:30, enjoying the sunrise and the opening chicory and the long beamed raking light

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Phoebe is 22!

It's still one of my favorite photos of her, holding up a wild turkey's wing feather that she'd found. Why do I love it so much? Because she isn't asking whose feather it is. She already knows what bird it came from; you can see it in her eyes. Phoebe pays attention.



She brought me a tiny white bug what had hitched a ride on her white shirt while she and Liam were picking blackberries

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Behind the Vows

I'm still swooning in the sultry heat and the soft hazy last of June light of my niece Claire's wedding to Cam.





Vows.







Perfection.





I'm just going to lift this from Farm Forward, so you can ponder what's packed into this angelic creature. Brains and ethics and a keen sense of what's sustainable, sensible and kind.



With a background in food systems, public health, and

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Scenes from a Wedding

I had the privilege of attending my niece Claire's wedding to her love Cam last weekend. Took my kids and drove all day, over the mountains and down down down to almost sea level, on the coastal plain of Maryland, to the beautiful home of Cam's parents, the perfect setting along the Severn River.

Rehearsal dinner Friday night featured three crates of enormous blue
crabs, freshly steamed

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