The first photo arrived in June before it flowered, and it looked like a nondescript, blobby leaf akin to butter crunch lettuce …

Maybe we don't see so many Monarch butterflies these days, but the milkweed are blooming, and holding up their end of the board …

Not everything in life is obvious …

The heat is too hot, and we wait for clouds each day, like pilgrims …

I'd just moved back to town after an almost 30 year hiatus …

I have so much respect for my friends …

When I drove in, I immediately saw the mower on his tractor, and parked accordingly: not on the lawn, not in my usual spot …

It was already a weird day, & feeling a bit deflated as one does waiting for a tow truck to arrive, I began to pace the porch of the general store, and idly read the signage …

"How old are his kids now?" my daughter asked …

"Can I get you some food?" she said …

I guess I couldn't leave well enough alone, so after driving four miles up a forest road into the Green Mountain National Forest, to a dead end parking space, I got out of the truck …

My work brought me to the lake this week, to a parking lot, to a camp, to a causeway, and to a "No Trespassing" sign, like that's some big surprise …

It's a thing: a 95 year old gardener still at it, and open for business, once a year …

These days, the fire is out when I get home …

i’ve studied the marsh marigold, a little …

I love my general store so much. I watch every new development since it's been bought, like a hawk …

It's so nice to be home, cooking onions for a rice-based saute, although it's late in the day, almost bedtime …

It's a day, windy & warm on the mountain, but as I understand it from the weather report, we'll be seeing another dip in the temperatures in the next 24 hours …

I had another hunch today driving back from the post office, which is often when I get hunches which eventually turn into some kind of odd hike or bushwhack …

The most thrilling thing in my life right now, is having to leave the house before 7 am, and drive through some very rural parts of Vermont …