Living and writing in a circa 1840 New England Farmhouse with three generations of my family
The tomato patch gave me so many reasons to be grateful today. In fact, there were so many that my basket was too full to carry them. I had to resort to an upturned shirttail to carry them all. There were more ripe tomatoes than Read More
I found my gratitude in a reminder from nature today. Small things can become something grand. They can evolve into something magical. Just look at this hydrangea bloom. The tiny blue flowers are lovely on their own. I see so much beauty in them. They Read More
I found a bit of gratitude in this beautiful hydrangea today. I have shared this hydrangea with you before. It begins flowering with petals that are creamy white. Those petals gradually take on a bit of a pink blush before turning light pink. Then they Read More
Today my gratitude was waiting for me at my favorite place: home. This week marks 19 years since we moved into what was an abandoned old farmhouse. I don’t know where the years have gone. When we moved in, the house was a structure, but Read More
My gratitude came to me with a sound that I overheard today. I was working at my computer when I heard footsteps on the back staircase that leads into the farmhouse kitchen. I have always loved that sound. When my children were little, they felt Read More
My gratitude came home with me from the farmer’s market today. I left the house with my tote basket and the hope that there would be something delicious to inspire me at one of our local markets. I didn’t come home empty handed. In fact, Read More
Gratitude can be so easy to find in the garden even on a rainy day. First, I was thankful that I didn’t need to water the garden. That would have been enough to set my day off in a good direction. Beautiful flowers in bloom Read More
I found my gratitude in the weather today. I was downtown when the skies turned light, then medium, and finally a dark foreboding shade of grey. Rain started to fall and then it started to pour. I was caught in the rain with errands that Read More
My gratitude was waiting for me in the perennial garden this morning. It’s easy for me to find gratitude there. It’s a space that grows reasons for me to be thankful. I have been watching this particular hydrangea bloom open up. I have made an Read More
I found gratitude at dusk tonight. My family had been outside for a few hours and we lingered until this moment. The sky was just losing light, the colors of the sunset being overtaken by darkness. We listened as a pair of Barred Owls called Read More
I held a bit of gratitude in the palm of my hand today. And yes, you would think that as a person who makes baskets that I might carry one with me when I head out to the garden. You’d be wrong because I find Read More
I mixed up a bit of gratitude in the kitchen today. I love to work on recipes and make things for my family, so being in the kitchen doing both of those things makes me very happy. Today had started out as the sort of Read More