Well, it is close to 100 degrees outside. Adjusting is proving difficult. Each year there are a series of days that seem to stretch across four seasons. Today’s heat could give mid-August a run for its money. A sun-covered porch, cooled by vine and stone seems the ideal refuge from the sun. […]

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Memorial Day weekend has been everything one hopes it will be during those dark months of winter. We have experienced a brilliant, clear sky with warm temperatures and a steady breeze.
I love these three days, our summer sampler. My girls are in bathing suits, the sprinkler is on and their dolls […]

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In Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic book, Anne of Green Gables, the protagonist, Anne, describes an impossibly beautiful route as the “White Way of Delight”. This footpath is our very own White Way in early Spring. Starting across the street from The Colonial Inn on the opposite site of Lowell Road, it stretches […]

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Today is the first day of Spring 2008. My eyes are craving green and my feet anxiously await a trail to walk that is not ankle deep in mud. Finding evidence of Spring was a challenge today so I chose to focus on what is coming by looking back.
Today’s photo is indeed an […]

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The first bright and glorious day of 2008 in Concord is today, January 3rd. I’ve been waiting patiently for the sun to lift our spirits and temperatures here in New England. The cloudless day has certainly given a lift to my outlook for 2008, despite the temperatures taking a dive […]

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