outdoors

  • snowbirds.

    Have you heard that it’s been cold in New York? Yes, yes you have. It’s all anyone’s talking about and I won’t deny, it’s freezing! There’s snow expected tonight and even though I know…

    January 24, 2013 16 Comments
  • subway art.

    I’m a bonafied subway enthusiast. Forgive my inner-Pollyanna and know that I feel honestly grateful each time that I slip between those stainless steel doors and find myself a seat on my way to…

    January 21, 2013 22 Comments
  • snow barns.

    If you follow me on instragram, you’ve already seen your share of snowy barns there. But just in case you don’t and maybe even if you do, here are a few more snowy scenes from…

    January 8, 2013 32 Comments
  • snowshoeing.

    While James and I were up visiting his family in Western New York, we took advantage of one snowy afternoon to go snowshoeing. Not minding the rapidly falling snow or the fact that soon…

    January 3, 2013 17 Comments
  • a snow drive.

    It’s not every day that you find yourself smack dab in the middle of a winter wonderland. Today James and I took a snowy drive through some of my favorite roads around his hometown.…

    December 27, 2012 26 Comments
  • the green fields of the mind.

    Around my sister’s table on Saturday night, we ate an autumnal feast of butternut squash risotto and kale salad made with October’s sweet leaves, and fresh, thick slabs of salmon crunched up with hazelnuts…

    October 15, 2012 11 Comments
  • late september.

    Fall comes quietly to the city. You have to be a keen observer of things to catch its beginnings. In the country the season makes a more obvious splash. Here, the tops of trees…

    September 25, 2012 15 Comments
  • blackberries.

    as good a reason as any to get married in august. over the next few days, we’ll be stuffing them into vases and our mouths with gusto. it’s good to be home.…

    July 30, 2012 11 Comments
  • make-believe: summer bbq

    just daydreaming about a few things for my favorite kinds of summertime bbqs. we’re galavanting about in mid-coast maine right now, probably doing lots of things much less stylishly, but nonetheless,  here’s to a…

    July 5, 2012 8 Comments
  • barberry hill farm.

    When James and I first started thinking about where we wanted to get married, I knew exactly the place where I wanted it to happen.  I imagined our wedding in the rear pasture of…

    June 26, 2012 24 Comments