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Ghosts of Christmas
Last week, on December 7th, I was walking home and a recycling truck drove past, piled high with discarded Christmas trees on their way to be chipped and turned into compost. How appropriate it seemed: the trees had performed their role for the holidays, it was the day after Epiphany and it was time for them to retire....but not before their ( Read more... ) -
As the year winds down
Darker, colder, snowier, but curiously cosy in its way, winter enfolds New England. There was so much bad weather this weekend that Bill and I stayed home in Cambridge and I made the first steamed pudding of the year. Can this be a solstitian reflex? I suppose it doesn't count because it wasn't a suet pudding (the suet is in the freezer in ( Read more... ) -
Luisa, how art thou magnified....
I seem to have been on LJ rather less often of late. Not sure why, really, except a lack of inspiration and the sneaking suspicion that continuing accounts of the garden or the aga or my other preoccupations are not terribly interesting to others. But people have actually ASKED me to write, so why not. Very flattering ( Read more... ) -
The continuing Aga saga
Home earlier than usual because Bill had some work to do at College. Nevertheless, almost a long weekend since we didn't head back to Cambridge until this morning ( Read more... ) -
Back again
After a long absence (well over a month) it's time to make another appearance. October, strangely enough, was pretty depressing. Usually it's one of my favorite times of the year. Late in September my beloved ex Willem arrived from Holland for a 10 days' visit. We have known each other now since 1973; we were a couple for a bit over 10 years, from ( Read more... ) -
Since I have been asked....
Not much has happened since yesterday except a workout which may have burned off some of the food I ate this past weekend in Toronto ( Read more... ) -
A lovely weekend
Just back from three days in Toronto visiting Bitterlawngnome and co. and doing a photoshoot. Some of the pictures have been most gratifyingly reviewed here in LJ already, either on my pages or Bill's! I plan to post a few more if interest warrants ( Read more... ) -
Photos in Toronto
Having a lovely time here in TO and additionally being photographed by Bill (Bitterlawngnome)...exhausting but most interesting. He and his partner have been most hospitable. Back to Boston tomorrow but meanwhile I am posting a couple of the shots that he took... they are on his journal as well, but it never hurts to be repetitive, right? :-)
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back in circulation
It's been a disorganized few weeks and I haven't been on the site... a lot of it being general August depression. August is the low point of the year for me, hot, sticky, unpleasant, de-energized. Now at last the year has turned and the air is freshening ( Read more... ) -
Dinner on the cusp
This past weekend there was a dramatic change in the air. When we arrived in Shelburne on Thursday night, it was hot and sticky. The temperature on the house was well over 80 degrees, even with good cross-ventilation. We opened a lot of windows and went to bed ( Read more... )