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We spent most of the weekend in Maine, where Sarah will be at camp.  We stayed in Belfast, on the Penobscot River, with very nice views. We dropped Sarah off at camp on Saturday.  Each child was promptly issued a kitten. Sarah is participating in the Brumby program, a camp-within-a-camp that allows her to muck […]

As the sun set on the longest day of the year, we decided that it was so nice that we would stay Sunday night and head back to New York Monday morning. On Sunday, the Ostroys had a pool party so all Sophie could see all her friends before heading off to camp for a […]

Jen and Sarah had simultaneous riding lessons on Saturday.  I watched with Sarah’s friend Marin, who visited for the weekend – they’ll be bunkmates at Hidden Valley Camp in just a couple of weeks. In the afternoon, they planned a kayak trip, only to find a garter snake coiled in the cup holder, as well as […]

It is high season for peonies, and Jen gathered a big bunch to bring home today. Here are some of the varieties, in situ. Many flowers are blooming.  This Silver-spotted Skipper visited a blackberry blossom, a harbinger of jam. The Red-Winged Blackbirds are numerous, and talkative. Here’s a Blue Jay in flight. And here’s an […]

It is springtime, and everything is coming into bloom. Sarah has just two more weeks of school. On Sunday, Jen and Sarah continued their mother-daughter riding lessons.  Sarah had Cookie. Jen had Hero (the Magic Horse™). The barn swallows kept busy. This heron, rather impressively, caught a large-mouth bass in the pond. He tucked it […]