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Recipe: Our Favorite Green Soup
By Polly Castor on March 17, 2010Read moreHappy St. Patrick’s Day! Not being a corned beef and cabbage person, I saved our favorite Green Soup recipe...
20Andy Goldsworthy Books
By Polly Castor on March 16, 2010Read moreAs I said I would on the blog here, I pursued the above Andy Goldsworthy books, and really enjoyed...
Photos of Flooding
By Polly Castor on March 15, 2010Read moreThere is still gobs of water around (where it isn’t usually!) from last Saturday’s rain…
Photos of Unusual Whitewater on Swollen Local Streams
By Polly Castor on March 14, 2010Read moreAfter around five inches of rain yesterday, 78,000 people in Connecticut are still without power, with many more than...
Book Review: Celebrate Your Creative Self
By Polly Castor on March 13, 2010Read moreI really like this book a lot and give it a hearty five stars. It is wonderful to jump-start...
Two of my Paintings
By Polly Castor on March 12, 2010Read moreThese two paintings I did a while ago. I wanted to share them because they were done with...
Sixteenth Page Done in My New Box-A-Day Art Journal
By Polly Castor on March 11, 2010Read moreThis page represents February 27, 2010 to March 10, 2010. See close-ups of recent entries below. Enjoy!
More Bovine Bliss
By Polly Castor on March 10, 2010Read moreWhen a previous post featured bovine bliss (see here) I didn’t imagine it as the first of a series....
Today’s Ocean Sunset Painting
By Polly Castor on March 9, 2010Read moreToday I worked on layering “graded washes” of watercolor to create a luminous effect. This single painting took several...
Movie Review: Runaway Bride
By Polly Castor on March 8, 2010Read moreMy oldest daughter is home from college for spring break. We enjoyed Runaway Bride... a thoroughly decent film which...
Winter Photos of New Pond Farm
By Polly Castor on March 7, 2010Read moreWith temperatures in the fifties yesterday and today, we are thinking spring with good reason! As the weather here...
Book Review: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
By Polly Castor on March 6, 2010Read moreThis is a wonderful book; it is the best novel I’ve read in quite a while. I give it...