Photography

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SNOW!

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We have snow! I was secretly hoping for a snow day.Instead, our power went out. When we got up at 6:50 this morning it was really 8:10.Needless to say, P was late to school.B took her to school and I took a little walk around the barns. What a great way to start the day.I love when the sun comes out after a snowy night.

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Thoughtful Sunday

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"...from November to Marchthe winter winds are harshon the fields and the marshthey're covered up with snowwhen you trudge to the shedyou have to scratch your headbecause the dad-blamed pile's getting low on

wood (hardwood)firewood (dry wood)there's not a stove in the worldthat's going to do you any goodwith out wood (stovewood)we could (you should)be out cutting more wood..."

"More Wood", Dillon Bustin, 1983.

(We listen to this on the Voices of Winter cd with Priscilla Herdman, Anne Hills, and Cindy Mangsen)

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American Chestnut

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My plan was to post this picture today with a quote. I thought surely Laura Ingalls Wilder had written something about roasting chestnuts in her books but she did not.So, instead I'll tell you a little about our American Chestnut trees.The American Chestnut used to be a prominent tree in the eastern United States. They were all but eliminated by the chestnut blight in the early 1900s.  Typically new trees don't live long enough to flower and fruit. Several organizations have been trying to reintroduce blight resistant trees to the original growing range.When we first bought our property more than twenty years ago we started planting trees from the soil conservation service. One year they offered American Chestnut seedlings. We bought a small bundle of those and two of them have grown to adulthood. For several years we have seen flowers and one had the prickly fruits grow on the trees. Previous years we have found lots of flat nuts. They were not fertilized and did not grow into plump fruit.Our two trees are not very close to each other so this spring when we noticed that the trees were flowering we clipped a flowering branch from one tree and tossed it into the tree that has had the prickly burs on it in the past.Our experiment worked!This year we have plump chestnuts!Now we need to decide if we will roast them or plant them.

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Thoughtful Sunday

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(I took my nephew's senior portraits)

 

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. i'll always be with you.”

Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne, 1926.

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This summer we watched my two oldest grand kids one day a week. Towards the end of the summer they started making projects on their own in the sewing room. They made lots of little projects from my scrap basket including pillow cases and tiny quilts
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