Monday, January 27, 2020

Welcoming Winter Woods

A winter forest is welcoming
in spite of - 
and precisely because of - 
her bitter barrenness

The freeing grace of winter hikes 
is found in their openness 
where every direction
is a new and possible path



Friday, September 13, 2019

2019 Apple Cider Festival!

DATE CHANGE: OCTOBER 19th is the new date for this event!

The time is nigh upon us! the Eighth Semi-Biennial Apple Cider Festival and Highwater Hootenanny is just two weeks away. If you're nearby, stop in for a great good time.

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Cabin Update...


"Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveller’s wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time."
~Henry David Thoreau

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.”
~Henry David Thoreau






“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”   
~Thoreau





Sunday, May 12, 2019

Raising the Roof


Day One of roof raising... We got more than 1/3 of the way done with just a small crew of workers. We're planning on working the next two Saturdays, so I suspect that we'll have the cabin under roof by some time in June, weather permitting.

The nice thing about this stage of work is that it only takes a few people to make progress. Of course, the more, the merrier.

Progress!

Monday, January 14, 2019

Mad Lilies


In spite of the dark in the sky
and the stones on the ground,
she danced like mad lilies
in a storm
Her bare feet fearless
in her persistent determination

Monday, October 29, 2018

Apple Cider Festival photos...


Fall is in the air at Grassroots Farm...