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The trees near the barn have a distinctly late-autumn look. On Saturday we traveled to Saratoga to watch Sarah’s debut races with the Colgate crew team. She rowed in the stroke position in the Women’s Frosh/Novice Four and Eight shells, with her team finishing in the top half of each race. As you can see […]

Today we attended the Sheep & Wool Festival at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds, perhaps the nation’s foremost gathering of ladies who like to knit. Among the offerings are skeins of yarn, wool socks, and lamb skewers. Also today was the Landsman Kill Trail Association’s Fall Hunter Pace, which drew about 120 riders. Here you can […]

Storms roll in; storms roll out. Trees fall down, in whole or in part. Sometimes trees simply die and must be cut down before they fall on the house, as was the case with the fir tree near the end of our driveway. However, in our ongoing effort to remain net neutral-to-positive, treewise, we planted […]

During a cold, sunny Saturday afternoon, our cell phones alerted us to an impending squall, which in fact arrived within the half hour. It cleared up almost as fast.

Here are Jen and Sarah, ready for the holidays after the hanging of the ornaments. Sarah is on-trend with this ugly Christmas sweater from her pal Ainsley.

Ordinarily we wait until just before Christmas to bring home a tree, mostly because no one is around during the week to water it. This year, however, there seems to be a Christmas tree shortage. According to The Wall Street Journal, this is not the result of supply chain interruption but rather the long tail […]

Here is our burning bush (euonymus alatus), which lets us know that autumn is nearing its end.

It wouldn’t be fall without a picture of one of our more photogenic maples.

Here’s a drone’s-eye view of our freshly mown hayfield courtesy of the equine photographer for the Landsman Kill Trail Association’s Fall Hunter Pace, which rode through our place Sunday.

Mid-October is quite late to make hay, but we’ve had a very wet season. Herb Stickle and his fleet of Ford tractors (seen here with bailer, tedder and mower attached) cleared out our hayfields this week. Herb said he made about eighty round bales. Here is a rare image of our interior swamp, in the […]