So here's what happened: This morning I came to the intersection of Sucker Brook and Oatka and Bacon Roads and saw an object in the road. A largish, lumpish object, not unlike a large dead turtle, except for the fact that it turned and snapped at a passing car. In other words, a large live turtle, in the middle of a busy rural intersection. I ( Read more... )

i saw a plump robin in the front yard yesterday. wednesday was a day of weak sunshine and high, gusty winds, shoving my car on the road, blowing the store's A-frame sign halfway down the storefront in one go ( Read more... )

.. of greens. The first dandelion greens from the yard this year, cooked up with a little bacon (mm, bacon) and sprinkled with vinegar (sorry, Jason - I did eat it outside). Spring has surely sprung, even if we still have the furnace on, right? Right? I've also been rooting the pestiferous lemon balm out of the garden, moving hollyhocks to safer ( Read more... )