How nice to get out for an afternoon walk with only a light vest– in the middle of January. Mid 50s on a mid-January Saturday afternoon? You have to be kidding me. Refreshing to get a full dosage of fresh air though as we walked through many of the quiet paths in the Forest Hills [...]
After a moving memorial meeting for DB, I was fortunate to have the chance to head north a bit with Sarah for a stay near Crane beach and the Inn at Castle Hill, a jewel of the Trustees of Reservations. For many reasons, but most importantly in celebration of a birthday, it was a gift [...]
Not too often that you see a weather map that looks like this one does at this moment: Hunkered down, though, as are most of us are on the eastern seaboard here. Something else… if I have it right, in 2011 so far, in Massachusetts we’ll have either felt or seen 1) a blizzard, 2) [...]
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 [...]
Yes, please. Any guesses as to which day corresponds to the upcoming wedding? Oh, baby…
Ok, so weddingwire with its countdown (aka. freak out) calendar says it’s five days away. 5. Fiiiive. Less than six. You get the idea. And Sarah and I have been running around like task hounds, borne on the helpful wings of our parents, siblings and much supporting prayer. One of our big steps? Getting the [...]
Don’t quite know why, but the first official days of summer have that extra glow of specialness to them. Perhaps it’s a combination of reflection over the recently passed academic year and the chance to do a good day hike on a Thursday in perfect weather. And the realization that it can keep on coming. [...]
With an inviting sun overhead and late afternoon temperatures at a perfect mid sixties, it wasn’t a hard choice at all this Friday to hop on the bike with the newly trued rear wheel (thanks, Ferris Wheels!) and pedal my way towards Millennium Park. All the more inviting to get outside since we just got [...]
That last geographic marker is an important one; we went to central Massachusetts, not western Massachusetts. I’ll be the first to own up to the unintended Boston-centricness of that mistake, considering pretty much all of the journey out on lovely Route 2 as ‘west.’ Now I know better. Sarah and I were gently and kindly [...]
Some Snow in the Southern Adirondacks
So we finally got a bit of snowfall today in the Boston area… with about 3-4 inches of accumulation over the course of the day. Really lovely to see the white stuff fall so fully and fat-ly through the morning into mid afternoon. And while it was good to make it out to the Saturday [...]