Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Dinner

91/365: The herd having an evening meal near our fence line.

Monday, March 30, 2009

Cold Rainy Morning

90/365: Truman with a case of the Mondays.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Roraback

89/365: Maggie doing her thing.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Macedonia Brook

88/365: Maggie in Macedonia Brook.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Cobble Mountain

87/365: The view west from Cobble Mountain, Kent Connecticut.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Vantagepoint

86/365: Maggie and Truman above it all.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Reflection

85/365: Stillness at the Roraback Preserve, Harwinton Connecticut

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Sugaring

84/365: Turning maple sap into syrup at a sugarhouse in Hebron, Connecticut.

Monday, March 23, 2009

Canaan Mountain

83/365: Maggie and Truman at the Beckley Furnace after a hike up Canaan Mountain.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Today's Flowers

82/365: Platycodon grandiflorus (balloon flower), lysimachia clethroides (gooseneck loosestrife), and calamintha officinalis (calamint) in our white garden, July 2008. Click here to see more images of flowers from around the world.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Spring Hiking

81/365: Slogging through ice, snow, and mud along the Naugatuck River.

Friday, March 20, 2009

At Last

80/365: Spring arrived in the northern hemisphere at 7:44 this morning.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Cornwall Covered Bridge

79/365: This one-lane bridge has spanned the Housatonic River since the 1800s, linking the villages of West Cornwall and Sharon in the Litchfield Hills.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Mudge Pond

78/365: The view south to Mudge Pond in Sharon, from a hilltop cornfield in Salisbury.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Green Day










77/365: Going deep into the archives for today's post, all the way to September 22, 1989, the night I quaffed my first Guinness at O'Donoghue's pub in Dublin. "It was real dark, but tasted pretty good," according to my journal. At closing time, everyone stood up and sang Amhran na bhFiann, the Irish national anthem.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Corner of the Pines

76/365: Coltsfoot Mountain and Valley Brook, Cornwall, Connecticut.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Today's Flowers

74/365: Aconitum 'Blue Sceptre' (monkshood) emerging from our Connecticut garden. Check out more at Today's Flowers.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Maggie


73/365: Doing what she does best.

Friday, March 13, 2009

Skywatch Friday

72/365: A West Indian sunset, February 26, 2009. For more beautiful skies from around the world, please visit Skywatch Friday.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Ready All, Row

71/365: Ready for the predawn darkness, thanks to this big 'ol bow light from Chesapeake Rowing.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

9 Days 'til Spring

70/365: Daylilies poking out of our garden this morning.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Snorkeling, Spearfishing

69/365: Heading out with Michael and Calvin for our annual trip to the reefs off the southeast coast of Grenada, March 2, 2008.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Ballyhoo

68/365: Feeding the reef fish at dusk. The Empacher is unofficially named for the ballyhoo (lower right); it has their shape but not their speed (yet).

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Today's Flowers

67/365: paeonia 'Lady Alexandra Duff', an heirloom peony dating back to 1902. For more flowers from around the world, please visit Today's Flowers.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Dominoes

66/365: At a wobbly wooden table in front of this rum shop in the mountains, we learned (kinda) how to play Dominoes with Michael and his crew, April 2008.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Skywatch Friday

65/365: A pink and purple sunset 12 degrees north of the equator, Grenada, West Indies. For more beautiful skies from around the world, please visit Skywatch Friday.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Bouganvillea 2

64/365: Bouganvillea in Grand Etang National Forest, Grenada.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Land Ho

63/365: An early morning arrival in Kingstown, St. Vincent, after sailing all night through the Grenadines.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Prickly Bay

62/365: Prickly Bay, with Glover Island in the distance, Lance aux Epines, Grenada.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Kingstown

61/365: A waterfront market in the Grenadines.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Hog Island

60/365: Michael's fishing boat anchored off Hog Island, Grenada