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Ordinarily we wait until just before Christmas to bring home a tree, mostly because no one is around during the week to water it. This year, however, there seems to be a Christmas tree shortage. According to The Wall Street Journal, this is not the result of supply chain interruption but rather the long tail […]

Here is our burning bush (euonymus alatus), which lets us know that autumn is nearing its end.

It wouldn’t be fall without a picture of one of our more photogenic maples.

Here’s a drone’s-eye view of our freshly mown hayfield courtesy of the equine photographer for the Landsman Kill Trail Association’s Fall Hunter Pace, which rode through our place Sunday.

Mid-October is quite late to make hay, but we’ve had a very wet season. Herb Stickle and his fleet of Ford tractors (seen here with bailer, tedder and mower attached) cleared out our hayfields this week. Herb said he made about eighty round bales. Here is a rare image of our interior swamp, in the […]

Everything is bright green at the farm right now. If you can zoom in, you will see our corkscrew willows at either end of the picture, an unwanted Canada goose at left, our tiny flowering cherry behind the pond, and the shimmering bog beyond.

We are sad to return to New York today after three weeks at the farm. Springtime is all around, well represented by this young cherry tree blooming by the pond. Daffodils are blooming everywhere, and so is our star magnolia (which we refer to as the cameo magnolia because it is very small).

We had a small but mighty Christmas, with a perfectly sized tree-for-three, which Sarah named Leroy. We had many presents, a Zoom call with the Burleighs, and a cassoulet dinner. The night before, Sarah made gingerbread cookies. When it came time to decorate them, everyone got involved. Daisy had a particularly successful holiday, receiving, in […]

This is the beautiful light that greeted us when we arrived late Saturday afternoon. It doesn’t last very long this time of year.

Lately we have been spending Friday nights in the city because Sarah has mid-day Saturday dance practice, where she is gunning for a big role in the Nutcracker. Here’s one of our more photogenic maples shortly after we arrived late Saturday afternoon. We hurried over to Southlands for their annual fundraising gala, held this year […]