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connecticut

  • farm stands and tomato galettes.

    A summer tomato fresh from a farm is a thing to eat if you’re feeling like you need a boost of the spirits or a restored faith in magic. That a summer tomato starts as…

    August 9, 2016 17 Comments
  • midsummer magic.

    It’s a good time of year, this one we’re in right now. It’s not the midsummer of the summer equinox, but the midsummer that means it’s the beginning of August and fully half the…

    August 1, 2013 16 Comments
  • lobster rolls.

    If you don’t grow up with them, the concept is understandably cause for some puzzling. Lobster meat in a hot dog bun? It’s like nestling a pair of cashmere-socked feet into a pair of…

    May 28, 2013 29 Comments
  • memorial day.

    Tiny tributes to fallen soldiers: boyscouts and marching bands and bright red fire trucks, lichen and granite and topsy-turvy flags.…

    May 27, 2013 2 Comments
  • a weekend away.

    Long walks on the beach. Raucous board games. A high school reunion. More stuffing than I thought was possible. It was a good weekend no matter how you look at it and I was…

    November 26, 2012 13 Comments
  • home again, home again.

    My hometown has a way of making you miss her in the fall months. Over the weekend, James and I were back home for the wedding of one of my oldest friends. We shuffled down…

    October 30, 2012 12 Comments
  • our wedding.

    fence post & flowers, bailing twine & mason jars.cedar posts & bottles.mom & dad.the spectacular, the genius, the perfectly wonderful, roosevelt dime.more flowers from the farm.benches & doilies (teetering on the edge of grandma-dom,…

    October 22, 2012 60 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
  • 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