It almost feels like a slight miracle, sitting out here on the 2nd floor back porch of the Carriage House room #4 at the Fairville Inn. It’s a quarter until eight on a Sunday morning, the cicadas are chirruping like nobody’s business and there’s a pretty view overlooking a manicured garden, with denser creeping vines [...]
There’s something about the sequence of a weekend with a day tacked on, the preceding Friday or the following Monday, that just opens up a whole other world of possibility. So sure, that might make for getting to those errands you’ve never quite gotten to, an extra morning to sleep in or the chance to [...]
Congratulations, J and K, on getting married! What a lovely wedding ceremony and reception this weekend despite the overcast drizzly skies in Frederick, Maryland. With the ceremony, a reminder of the Christian tradition of marriage signifying the love of Christ for the church, and all those moments of parents, siblings, children walking down the aisle. [...]
How did the last two weeks go by so quickly? Maybe it was a combination of wanting to fast forward to warmer spring weather (which is painfully slow in coming), enduring the tepid start to the Red Sox season and being semi-conscious from a late-season flu. But still, always thankful for the school spring break [...]
Wrapping up a great weekend visiting family and home(s) for the holidays. And nothing quite says it like a screen shot from the camera photoroll, photos taken over the past week–an accumulation of the intended and unintended. And collectively, just right. Family, food, gifts and cheer. Christmas trees (or wreaths) and the warmth of a fireplace. Wintry walks–from a state [...]
As always, so good to go home for Thanksgiving…
Finally getting around to posting some pictures from the Baxter State Park trip this past weekend. And at the same time, four days later, to also be working out the last soreness (the good kind) in legs, shoulders and the soles of my feet. With a 7.5 mile hike just to get into the backcountry [...]
How nice to mix the requisite fall visit out to Western Massachusetts with a weekend bike trip through the AMC. Staying in a charmingly converted barn in Hancock, MA–on the border between Massachusetts and New York. Right in the Berkshires and close enough to see the Taconics. Brisk morning starts but warming up both days [...]
A few days left at the end of August…and a return to all this heat. But it’s kind of right, no? Gotta have the heat to make it last. Great time visiting family for a few end-of-summer days. Catching a minor league baseball game over the river in New Jersey (though the local team, the [...]
Brunch with Family At Toro… And A Cat Arrives
Ah, Labor Day weekend. The final gasp of summer before the harried beginning of the new school year. So it was especially good to have Sarah’s mom and D come up for a few days, during which we did a day trip up to Maine (a bit of fried clams and some lake swimming) and [...]