the sun at the top of the drive

I am sitting by the fire typing away knowing that four am comes early( time we wake here), yet i stay where i am.
I have been listening to pride and prejudice on audio in the car, in the kitchen, while running from room to room. oh goodness how i love elizabeth and darcy has there ever been two more perfectly matched souls! i have been waiting to see bright star, truth betold i am afraid once i do everything will change. perhaps the change will be subtle but i doubt it, i have a feeling that i will plunge deep, deep into that world, the one i often speak of. what book or film moved you, do you remember the scene, the phrase, the paragraph the feeling...do tell.

our 5 o'clock ( well six)

pretty much the minute k. gets home we walk the dogs through the pastures. yesterday we went through the corn field. did i tell you we have a corn maize? well we do. k, the dogs and i walked around in it, when i decided to go a different way and so did grace before you knew it we were calling out to each other" are you out yet" i would say yes as i thought is saw the glimpse of an out, but wrong i would yell out "not yet" we found ourselves running in every direction. victory was mine as i was the first to find my way out, then grace, k and sophie how fun was this, in our own backyard! how i wish all our niece and nephews could play, in fact i wish every one could feel like a kid again in the maize!

all the animals are now comfortable with each other, both mike(horse) and clarable are in love with sophie perhaps it is her white as snow color and her sweet and shy demeanor, grace on the other hand thinks she can take down clarable and out run mike! have a wonderful weekend everyone, i am headed to new hampshire for work, leaving the farm and the dogs in friends care i do hope they have a good time here! you might see me pop my head again on sunday!

be still

it was probably our fifth hour in the car, starting to get restless. the sun was beginning to think of setting when we drove by this scene, i held my breath knowing that there was no way i could ask k. to stop we had still aways to go. i must have held my breath for a while because soon i felt k take my hand as he turned the car around so that i can capture what we where seeing. we all jumped out and pointed to different things it was k. who was at awe at how deep and dark the reflections where. i could not get over the stillness. it was at this moment i think we felt our vacation had begun.

back from there, home

can we say we are home when it felt like home is where we just came from? i loved living in a tent. i thought i would have longer. K and i talk about how we will do it for good one day, well at least for a longer time, time enough to have a post office box, long enough to perfect it, long enough to know we have lived in a tent. i have only been home for a few days and just like that i find myself in the routines i was hoping to leave behind. k and i discuss our life in a tent every-night, each one of us not able to admit how much we miss it. I can say it out-loud to him of course but why, he has given us a home and we never want to crave what we do not have. we aspire too it, we clear a path in our thoughts to get us there- but we choose never to express or feel that life would be better somewhere else. life is now, happening here so we must embrace it.





* Pia featured some of life in at tent here, thank you pia!

the morning after

have you ever studied the sunset. i have seen many from mountain tops, highways and bedroom windows, yet never like i have here. the sky darkens before the sun melts into the the floor of the earth ,then a calmer soft sky starts to paint the ceiling and walls of my surroundings i wonder how many colors and brushes does this painter have. the sky reminds me of the color of peoples skin, especially their faces . i am sitting at a cafe now wanting more of last night. for the first time my camera has cheated me and i could not see everything. i want more but this time i will sit on the sand. hold his hand we will not chase the sun but instead let it find us...

*thank you paul for helping wi th the size

shall we go for a walk on the beach and watch the sunset...

how to describe the sunsets that we have been experiencing here would require a skill of the english language i do not have. perhaps if i knew latin, i could . every evening we walk along the beach, give in to the dogs who in their own way let us know that they would like to run free, swim and taste the salt water. we promise no wet dog in the tent to each other then relent and watch them play, that they do well. I notice how they are also affected by the beauty of the sunlight and as they run towards it they seem to slow down and take a moment for themselves. we are walking now towards the sun, it is bouncing up and down. k. keeps repeating it changes every second, yes it does and my camera and i try hard to keep up.