Category: Wanderlust to Houselust
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Essex Regatta 1960
An archival flashback to the 11th Essex Regatta (and 34th Westport Regatta) as featured in August and September 1960 Valley News articles. Ready for summer?!
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Icehouse Landscaping Update, End of May
Sooo much progress as we hustle the icehouse rehab toward its conclusion in these final days of May…
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Home Inspection, May 22, 2006
Remembering that fortuitous day almost two decades ago when home inspector James Gibb helped demystify our future home.
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Asparagus Officinalis
Asparagus (Asparagus officinalis) is an early season perennial vegetable that pops out of Rosslyn’s still chilly soil sometime in May. Each year it is a harbinger of spring, arriving at just the right time to reassure us that the long Adirondack winter is retreating; that mud season is mostly past tense; and a happy, holistic gardening season is underway. Rosslyn’s asparagus bed was one of the very…
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Wild and Free
Sometimes life rhymes. And sometimes were fortunate to hear the “singing underneath“. Whence this siren song to live wild and free?
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Life is a Garden
This time of year, especially on weekends, my mind melds with moist soil, with the earliest hints of life, the first hint of bud burst, earliest spring blossoms, seed sorting, plant plotting, spring start coddling,… Seasonal synapses begin to fire. I start to count weeks and days working backwards from probable last frost. And I…
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Anticipated Nostalgia
At the outset, this post was inspired by Matt Miller’s poem “Far Away” that found its way fortuitously to my inbox. An earlier draft of this post was titled “Scent of a Home” in tribute to his poignant piece grappling with the future departure of his daughter for college. I began by reflecting on the…
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Ready or Not
At the outset we bought Rosslyn envisioning a 1-4 year timeline. Resuscitate the house and outbuildings while rebooting our lives, and then move on. Ready or not, on we’d go. Tidy. Viable. Or so we thought. But our timeline stretched and our ambitions mushroomed. We became romantically involved and our perspective shifted, fish-eyed, and grew…
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An Emotional Relationship
Another patchwork quilt of a post. If you’re chilly this afternoon or evening, maybe you can pull it up around your chin to warm up? If I’ve lost you already — an emotional relationship? a patchwork quilt?! — sorry about that. You’ll miss out on a sailing riff on homing. Or perhaps a homing riff…
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April Oasis
Meditating on the lakeside sanctuary that seduced us nearly two decades ago (and with which we remain smitten even as we begin let go…)
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Dilating & Distorting
A poem flanked with wistful renderings of two history hued artifacts that whisper neoclassical prayers while subtly dilating and distorting the here and now. What?!