Dinner

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

Cold Rainy Morning

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

Roraback

89/365: Maggie doing her thing.

Macedonia Brook

88/365: Maggie in Macedonia Brook.

Cobble Mountain

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

Vantagepoint

86/365: Maggie and Truman above it all.

Reflection

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

Sugaring

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

Canaan Mountain

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

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.

Spring Hiking

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

At Last

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

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.

Mudge Pond

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

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.

Corner of the Pines

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

Today's Flowers

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

Maggie

73/365: Doing what she does best.

Skywatch Friday

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

Ready All, Row

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

9 Days 'til Spring

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Bouganvillea 2

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

Land Ho

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

Prickly Bay

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

Kingstown

61/365: A waterfront market in the Grenadines.

Hog Island

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