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Everything is bright green at the farm right now. If you can zoom in, you will see our corkscrew willows at either end of the picture, an unwanted Canada goose at left, our tiny flowering cherry behind the pond, and the shimmering bog beyond.

We are sad to return to New York today after three weeks at the farm. Springtime is all around, well represented by this young cherry tree blooming by the pond. Daffodils are blooming everywhere, and so is our star magnolia (which we refer to as the cameo magnolia because it is very small).

We had a small but mighty Christmas, with a perfectly sized tree-for-three, which Sarah named Leroy. We had many presents, a Zoom call with the Burleighs, and a cassoulet dinner. The night before, Sarah made gingerbread cookies. When it came time to decorate them, everyone got involved. Daisy had a particularly successful holiday, receiving, in […]

This is the beautiful light that greeted us when we arrived late Saturday afternoon. It doesn’t last very long this time of year.

Lately we have been spending Friday nights in the city because Sarah has mid-day Saturday dance practice, where she is gunning for a big role in the Nutcracker. Here’s one of our more photogenic maples shortly after we arrived late Saturday afternoon. We hurried over to Southlands for their annual fundraising gala, held this year […]

We had weird light and moody skies yesterday, rounding out four weeks of quarantine. The days run together as we try to get some work done, attend video social events, plant whatever we can think to plant in the garden, and cook whatever we can think to cook. Today we removed the kimchi from its […]

While Sarah collects armloads of horseback riding ribbons — including, I am told, a championship in the pleasure division (whatever that may be) — and Jen collects bushels of apples, I am stuck in New York collecting comments from opposing counsel. But here are some drones-eye view pictures I received from the Landsman Kill Trail […]

Were sunsets always this dramatic? This one was Saturday evening, just after Daisy cleared about a dozen grazing deer from the field.

Late-season haymaking continues, as you can see by the big tractor near the crest of the hill. The garden is still giving us tomatoes, melons, and peppers. Late September is the new mid-July.

Attentive viewers of rhinebeckfarm.com may have noticed that the PondCam™ has not been working lately. Good news: you can find a new, improved PondCam on its eponymous page. It’s amazing how technology advances, and equally amazing that the only way I could capture the image above was by taking a screen shot of a video […]