While many are shoveling out from deep blankets of snow-drifts, I would like to escape our white wintry hillside by recalling landscape tapestries of summer twenty-twelve. Storms of blossoms unfurl throughout the spring and summer here at Flower Hill Farm attracting pollinators, birds and other beasts to our gardens, fields and forest. It is this living tapestry of color, texture, fragrance and sounds that inspired me to create this blog four years ago . . . February 6, 2009.Over the last … [Read more...] about Recalling Landscape Tapestries of Summer Twenty-Twelve
Recalling Landscape Tapestries of Summer Twenty-Twelve
While many are shoveling out from deep blankets of snow-drifts, I would like to escape our white wintry hillside by recalling landscape tapestries of summer twenty-twelve. Storms of blossoms unfurl throughout the spring and summer here at Flower Hill Farm attracting pollinators, birds and other beasts to our gardens, fields and forest. It is this living tapestry of color, texture, fragrance and sounds that inspired me to create this blog four years ago . . . February 6, … [Read more...] about Recalling Landscape Tapestries of Summer Twenty-Twelve
More Wintry Wonders: Fern Frost
Winter can be a remarkable painter and engraver too. January's frigid temperatures merging with just the right amount of moisture and 'surface texture' . . . I would not dare refer to smudged glass here . . . often creates crystalline forms on our simple farmhouse windowpanes, inspiring joy and awe for winter's icy mysteries. When outdoor degrees dip into the teens, single digits and minuses, these 'fern frost' etchings are more likely to be viewed from within a warm but not overly … [Read more...] about More Wintry Wonders: Fern Frost
More Wintry Wonders: Fern Frost
Winter can be a remarkable painter and engraver too. January's frigid temperatures merging with just the right amount of moisture and 'surface texture' . . . I would not dare refer to smudged glass here . . . often creates crystalline forms on our simple farmhouse windowpanes, inspiring joy and awe for winter's icy mysteries. When outdoor degrees dip into the teens, single digits and minuses, these 'fern frost' etchings are more likely to be viewed from within a warm but not overly warm … [Read more...] about More Wintry Wonders: Fern Frost
Gazing Into A Wintry Landscape of Wonder
Though the wintry landscape palette is not as colorful as other seasons, the raw sky does spread out a bright cloth with vivid rose and lavender hues each early morning and just before night.Winter's beauty can be mesmerizing, though wind chills of -13 F do challenge the spirit.Somehow we all adapt.We are all creatures of habit. Late afternoons and early mornings, I often find our resident Red-tailed Hawk perching on the same branch, in more or less exactly the … [Read more...] about Gazing Into A Wintry Landscape of Wonder
