Here’s a look back at a sight we hadn’t ever seen until COVID happened. I put off an MRI in March, but decided it was pretty essential after a few months (everything turned out okay). So in May, I found myself on a near-empty ferry to the mainland. At the …
I’m a gleaner by nature. I love finding food in trees and on bushes. When blackberry season is in full swing, I’m there. I even wear a certain jacket rife with tears and holes thanks to annual thorny August picking. Blackberries go in cereal, in salads, in cobbler, in pie, …
These are definitely interesting times. Some kids and teachers are doing school from home all year. Some kids and teachers are at school – masked, sanitized, and distanced. Some people are self-quarantining. Some are having parties. Some people are dutifully masked. Some are covering their faces yet asserting their opinion …
Vegetable gardening on our property has made me feel like a failure over the years. The soil is terrible, the warmest spot gets only two hours of full sun, and despite all of my hopes and efforts, oregano and sage are some of the only plants that grow robustly. So …
One of our primary motivations for moving to Orcas Island was the peace, the tranquility, watching the sun set and the moon rise in the quiet of the evening. As tourists before moving here, we spent every night sitting in chairs, watching the colors of the sky change over the …
With five days left of summer before school begins, we’re enjoying every last ray of sunshine, every last chance to swim in the lake, some tent “camping” with our pets in the front yard and the living room (the black tent is for our shedding cat), some all-morning book reading, …
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