Monthly Archive: December 2022

Land and water, December 30th

I walked down to the beach at Salt Pond yesterday. I observed changes in the landscape due to the winter storm last week. The first, and most obvious, was this huge root mass, taller...

Meandering toward 2023

It’s been a strange week. I don’t work anymore “outside the home” as they used to say, but I still have a sensation of being off work. I feel on hiatus, yet everything continues...

Trees and snow

What a storm. We are having perfect weather here for Christmas Eve, in the 20’s (F) and snowing lightly. The power is out. But we have a generator and a woodstove. No trees fell...

Hidden story

I am awake. It’s 3 am. Can’t sleep. Every time I set an alarm because I need to get up early, I wake up absurdly earlier than the alarm. Oh well. We are going...

Walking toward the light

We spent a few days in Quebec City. I’ve long wanted to go there since my son went with his middle-school French class. And it’s only 5-1/2 hours drive away from us, a pretty...

Knitting and me

I am coming to an end of this shawl I started knitting in September. It has been time-consuming. When I started it, I didn’t know how long it would take. I thought – maybe...

Old Pond Railway Trail

My walk today brought me down Old Pond Railway Trail. Sam & I walked this way yesterday, and I saw a large patch of lichen windfall. I wanted to go back today and do...