Author: Catherine

Parmeliaceae

A type of lichen, per my plant app. Sam cut down a maple tree. This specimen was nestled in the upper branches. It’s so interesting with those circular shapes surrounded by little hairs. We...

Winter cyanotypes

The cyanotype experiment worked out pretty well. I could have gotten more of the fragile stems to show up by pressing the glass or acrylic top more firmly onto the plant material. But they...

Holding on

The sky has been red or pink both morning and night for a few days. I wake up disoriented and in the dark, not knowing if it’s midnight or morning. To my relief, it’s...

Happy trails

This has been a great winter for snow. It’s kind of unbelievable! After a number of years that convinced me the snowy weather was gone, due to drought and climate change, this winter has...

Finding joy

Friday night – I’m days behind in posting this, I know – we went to a Graham Platner for US Senate Town Hall in a nearby town. When we got there, these two musicians...

Richness

A few unusual / quirky things that happened today: Sam gave me flowers, a mug and a card for Valentine’s Day. This is Highly Unusual. I was flabbergasted! (Note: I bought the pink tulips...

Conditions

We’ve been cross-country skiing a few times. Saturday, it took us about 2 hours to ski the Witches’ Hole Loop in Acadia. We entered from Duck Brook Bridge. It was well-traveled, but conditions were...