I got myself the sort of (quite early) birthday present I always want, but would never ask for.  There’s just no way to send someone out to find the perfect handmade journal for me, you know? It was made by Kreativlink on Etsy. I got one of the larger format ones, since I like a […]

All over the place, really.  How’s about I tell you about all sorts of things, in whatever order I remember them,  as I would over drinks in person?  Feel free to interrupt, and let me know when you need another round. I’ve spent the last couple of weekends crafting with friends from our living history […]

First there was Maryland Sheep and wool, for which I made a few dozen bags.  At the last second.  With feeling (and excellent audio books spurring me along). Most of the bags found happy homes, but I do have some orphans I should list.  I finished by the skin of my teeth and took off […]

This is my favorite blogoshpere tradition, particularly because it coincides with Imbolc and with my Mom’s birthday.  And this is one of my favorite poems.  It’s one I return to  time and time again.  I love Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill’s writing, particularly for the way she intertwines the natural world with mythology and entagles her daily experiences in that […]

Lord a’mercy, I do let things slide.  I’ve finished a couple of pairs of socks I haven’t shown you, added a beautiful new tree to the garden to whom I have not introduced you, been to a fantastic music festival I haven’t talked about, read some huge number of books I haven’t reviewed, experienced a […]

This is how we’re starting. Photos, unmanipulated, as I sort.  The sorting will be no small feat–I’m going to have to buy an external hard drive if I want my laptop to continue to function.  The hard drive in this puppy is just too small. If these are the only really good photos I get […]

As promised, video of Bruce Molksy playing at the Potomac Celtic Festival last weekend. His beautiful finger-style guitar rendition of his original tune “Brothers and Sisters:” And his fantastic clawhammer banjo and vocal for the traditional old-time classic “John Brown’s Dream:” Next time, I’ll try to try to bring the actual video camera, tons of […]

My period of mandatory silence is over.  I didn’t intend for it to spill over here onto the blog, but my desperate need to plant whenever it’s not raining, my new obsession with learning to build dry-stack walls, and some news I haven’t yet processed coalesced into me thinking a lot and saying little.  I […]

I’ve been traveling every weekend, to Ostara, and Maryland Sheep and Wool, and Beltaine, and next to the river shore with the girls, and then south to see dear friends.  And planting, and moving plants, and having lots of work done on the house.  And, all the while, trying to get my mind back in […]

I’ve been doing a fair amount of racing around without managing to take many photos along the way. I’m trying to do as much spring gardening as possible, partially to prepare for the heavy equipment which will soon wreck our front garden while digging up our sewer line.  Imagine pictures of weeded and mulched beds, […]