Glass

November 26, 2014September 1, 2015 / Apple Hill Cottage / 10 Comments

A Little House-Keeping

Windows are such a metaphor

for seeing clearly,

or not…

for looking out

or in —

the past,

the present,

all condense

in the mist

on the glass.

and i’m grateful for the views from my windows…

Treasure

November 24, 2014 / Apple Hill Cottage / 6 Comments

the kids are here
from far flung places
Wisconsin, California…
once a year
we see them…
So we are here
in the crowded cottage
Eating sleeping laughing talking cooking playing
and being thankful to be together.

Landscape

November 21, 2014November 21, 2014 / Apple Hill Cottage / 18 Comments

Thomas Wolfe wrote You Can’t Go Home Again, and the title has become an often-quoted phrase about change and memory.

sheep farm on Ruff Creek Hill

Yet here I am. Back home in These High Green Hills. Living within two miles of my childhood home. Living on what used to be my grandfather’s orchard.

sunrise from my bedroom

Sometimes a bit like being A Stranger in a Strange Land, but more often it is like being a stranger in a familiar land. Older and wiser, I see the familiar with new eyes — The Return of the Native…