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We enjoyed the Memorial Day Parade — that unchanging, Norman Rockwell exemplar of small-town what have you — from the commodious front porch of the Kaimal/Lawsons, who, sadly, were away tending to Maya’s ailing mother. Here is the view from said porch, including what is possibly the nation’s largest ginkgo tree. For visitors Lew, Rinda, […]

We spent Friday night in the city, having dinner at Palm Too with the Zieselmans to celebrate Sarah’s 15th birthday. In Rhinebeck, it was cold and wet, like Daisy’s nose.

This pine tree, always bare on one side, wasn’t much of a looker. Indeed, when we moved in eleven years ago, Al Wolcott thought it so ugly he said we ought to cut it down. The tree has saved us the trouble — as well as the trouble of cutting down the Norway maple it […]

Autumn is here and leaves are falling, but everything is still quite green.

We had a sunny, summery weekend, although you wouldn’t have known that looking at this morning’s fog. On Saturday, Sarah rode indoors so they could set up the outdoor rings for the Southland Foundation’s annual gala.  She and Owen showed good form, but it was so hot in the ring they had to cut the […]

The field looked spiffy after Del Wolcott mowed it for parking at the Landsman Kill Trail Association’s Spring Trail Ride, which took off from our farm on Sunday.  We left early for Sarah’s American Youth Dance Recital at Hunter College. Here is Sarah looking spiffy in a Colgate sweatshirt standing between two locust trees. Also […]

We had many late-breaking signs of spring this weekend, including the redbud in bloom, the first flowers of the dogwoods, and Daisy in the pond.  Still no morels, though.

We don’t offer many pictures of the trip up to the farm, which is usually taken at night.  This weekend we sat out a Friday night storm and drove up in the morning. Our evergreens fared poorly in the high winds. Today we left blue skies competing with glowering clouds.  Between Sarah’s exams and spring […]

We had a fantastic 10-day vacation at the farm for Christmas and New Years. We arrived the Friday before Christmas to find that the overgrown hedgerow between our fields had at last been removed.  You can actually see the old stone wall now. On Sunday it snowed, guaranteeing us a white Christmas and a happy […]

We had three or four inches of snow on Saturday — just enough to justify a blazing fire. Daisy doesn’t mind the snow a bit.