Beka Copper and Alanna Series By Tamora Pierce (Review)
These engaging books are great for their invincibly strong female characters, and the fascinatingly thorough world building the author has done.
Month: August 2019
Java Jacks Fabulous Seafood Chowder Recipe
Newfoundland seafood chowder is particularly good. Here is how they make it.
Gallery and Gift Shop Beauties We Didn’t Buy
Not shoppers, here are the best of the few galleries, bookstore and crafts we saw on our jaunt to the northeast.
The Hymn We’ve Been Singing Repeatedly
We sang this hymn throughout our trip, riveted to both the meaning of the words and the beautiful melody.
Featured Artist: Christine Koch
We loved meeting Christine Koch in Woody Point, Newfoundland, and loved her printmaking and gouache paintings. I thought you’d like to meet her too!
Save Me the Plums (Book Review with Recipes)
If you are interested in the food industry, or in publishing, or in memoirs about working lives rather then personal ones, you might want to pick this one up.
Camping Trip 2019 Summary Poem (and Route Map)
This poem and its map summarize a fabulous five week camping trip together with our daughter to eastern Canada.
Day 37: Sunrises and Sunsets from the Trip
While we drive the last leg home, I thought you could marvel at this collection of five weeks of sunsets and sunrises.
Day 36: Visiting a Friend in Vermont on the Way Home
A visit to a church friend, as well as the Cabot cheese factory, after a thunderstorm drive followed by dramatic sunset color…
Day 35: Miscellaneous Trip Photos
Since we’re driving homeward I thought I’m share some miscellaneous photos from the trip…
Day 34: Five Plein Air Paintings and a Necklace in Baxter
While I painted these five pastel paintings, our daughter stitched together a complex necklace of seed beads.
Day 33: The Many Faces of Pond Water (and its Lessons)
– My study of South Branch Pond continues. These photos are all of the same pond in different moments. I love the contrasts, the compositions, the variation in one place, when you get still enough to notice. It is quite the metaphor, this still pond taking on so much humble interest. We all should be … Read more
Day 32: South Branch Pond (Reflections and Loons), Baxter State Park
This place is blissful, clean and clear, reflecting the changing light and full of wildlife. We loved it and rested deeply.