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 [...]
What better reason to get the place a bit more put together than anticipation of a visit from family? Great to have mom, along with sister J and her family, up for a visit over these past few days. Escaping their Philadelphia area heatwaves of 1oo degree plus weather to the slightly cooler New England [...]
Sure, come springtime, it makes sense that the grass gets greener and that the trees start bursting a few weeks earlier in the states south of New England. It’s a whole other order of goodness to see it and feel it though–driving with S. down from Boston to Pennsylvania this weekend with arms perched outside [...]
My nephew recently celebrated a birthday (my goodness, the boy is THREE) and in telling uncle fashion, I had to be reminded of this fact in perhaps a too-understanding passing comment made by my parents over the phone. (“James, you know it’s I.’s birthday coming up, right? Right?”). Sigh. With usual grace, however, my sister [...]
A Wedding, A Pause and A Whole Lot Of Cookies
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. [...]