May 11 2014
Mother’s Day 2014
Jen started the day with her customary Mother’s Day breakfast in bed. We decided to take a year off from giving her presents that she was required to plant, and instead gave her books to read and write in. Sarah also made her a polka-dot headband. Jen spent most of the day planting things anyhow.
On Saturday, we had a visit from Ginger, Bill and Dan Wadsworth. Ginger is the granddaughter of Clinton G. Abbott, who bought our farm from Isabella Burger in 1915, and who built, among other improvements, our barn.
In this picture you can see Clinton Abbott packing apples (while wearing a necktie). Ginger’s mother is at far right.
We had threatening weather but took a nice walk with the Wadsworths after lunch. Ginger is a children’s book author, and she presented Sarah with an inscribed copy of The Sage of Slabsides, her biography of the naturalist John Burrows.
Perhaps in honor of Clinton Abbott, an ornithologist, we saw some excellent birds in the afternoon. Here’s a Scarlet Tanager.
And here’s an Osprey who came fishing in our pond. Clinton Abbott was the author of The Home-Life of the Ospreys (London, Witherby & Co., 1911).
We saw a number of Black Swallowtails.
Sarah spotted this Gray Tree Frog, which looks just like a rock.
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