Reclaimed Space
The move to Rocky Hill Road has begun, at long last. We closed on the house and land yesterday, and I took a load of things from our rental house…
David Hockney: On exploring new media
From A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney, by Martin Gayford (p.98-100) • • • Martin Gayford: Why do you use so many different means and media to make art?…
A Swarm of Honey Bees
On a beautiful sunny day recently, Paula was sitting on the front porch of the house we are renting in town, and she saw what she thought was a cloud…
Growing a Farmer
Paula and I have been reading Kurt Timmermeister's 2011 book, Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land, which summarizes more than twenty years of establishing a…
A View from Above
43 acres. We were looking for 3 to 5 acres. Just enough property to plant a large garden, eventually have a greenhouse, possibly an outbuilding or two, and room enough…
Wolf Kahn’s Barns
There's a barn on the Rocky Hill Road property, a big 50x54 red-and-white barn, in very good condition, with a new metal roof. It speaks of possibilities: sheep, goats, maybe…