goats

i hope you had a good weekend. the weather here was a dream. today looks like that dream continues. i have the urge to write quotes on recycled paper and leave them all around the city. today i have the urge to wear something pretty and light. today i hope i find a big belly laugh. today i hope to bite into the most perfect apple. today i hope to capture how i am feeling on film. today i hope.

update*later that day(it is noon now).. i just came back from a walk with grace i sat on a rock and watched the pony, the horse and clarabelle the cow graze. grace played all around me she loves running fast! the sun is glorious and warm so i removed my cardigan, i sat in my dress and wellies it felt like summer all over again. i walked all along the stone walls and picked up some fallen pine cones, what to with them this year i wonder! oh i hope your day is filled with sunshine and warmth!

corn

this morning frost covered the ground and everything else it could find. sun floats bright in a almost cloudless sky.we would harvest the corn today, as much as we would need to carry us over the winter, they would serve as treats for the horses and clarabelle. as i was picking the corn, more like pulling i started to think of all those who really had to do this. all that had to hurry while spending sixteen hours in the field, hands raw, cut and sundried for maybe a meal or a roof. things have changed now at-least here on this side of the world big machinery has taken over, yet i can't help to think of the signs posted in cafeteria walls of companies, with all the agricultural laws and the tiniest minimum wages written all over them, at times even embarrassed, ashamed to-read them. how could hard working people who feed us get so little.

it is afternoon now, corn put away as fields are cut down. the sun shines beautiful the warmth of it's rays has reached us . we are hobby farmers today at best. the storm windows will get placed, clothes will shift from light to heavy. we hope for the arrival of one of our new additions, wondering about the others yet to come. for now we will go back outside and let the sun know we are grateful for it's arrival.

the rain, the light and the person it makes

sometimes there is a delicate balance that plays out in twenty four hour period. waking up to a new day is a gift, being able to love those who surround you is one as-well. a little later in the day you begin to think about how at times you feel as if your not doing enough, wonder really what is it that you are doing? that is usually when the radio goes on, as if it's job is to try to bring you up back into the light. then as the sun meets the leftover rain you find yourself searching for a sweater upstairs, the upstairs that at times you forget is there. you notice the little things, the ones that the light hits and just like that you find a balance of wanting to be better but liking yourself and what surrounds you just the same...

the color at my feet

today

chased clarabelle back into the pasture again!
nursing a bad knee( not sure how, but better already)
i fixed clarabelles escape rout
created two picture books for printing
answered blog sponsorship question
ate a black bean and goat cheese quesadilla for lunch
listening to npr classics
will find nature treasure with my camera
and i feel like watching remains of the day ( perhaps later)
wondering what i should make with the beautiful quinces i received
and drying black walnuts!

eyes see clearly but heart is blurry

do you know that time in your life when you know a big change is about to take place, you have wanted it, but you feel anxious, nervous. you second guess yourself. you ask for signs but do not trust yourself enough to read them..i am there but i will take a drive now and try to leave those somewhere, anywhere but here..and maybe upon my return those unclear feelings would have left me...

*then i had a dream of a day will share photos soon!

Vous est nul autre

i want to say thank to my husband for sharing the last seventeen years with me, having me as his wife for the last twelve
and giving me loveliest of weekends
all my love
"vous est nul autre"

curb my camera at farmstands:)

Oh dear friends i think i might have to start promising no more farm stand pictures. has it taken over this blog? you see where i live and these little tucked away jewels i find, i just can't help myself but i will try. yesterday i did discover such a beautiful place , so beautiful that k and i have decided to return on sunday and spend our anniversary walking the hills, so if camera permits i will have pictures of our lovely country stroll for you soon. we will also be going to visit our soon to be new addition to our family, he is very special and very big and fast an if that was enough we will also visit another maybe soon to be addition to the family and he is tall dark and strong! have a great weekend friends, please do that thing you have wanted to do!

bountiful!

today i while taking a wrong turn i came across the loveliest farm stand and apple orchard in pompfret ct. i thought i would start off with these photos! wondering what your favorite vegetable is and how you like to eat?

mine just might be onions is that weird?