Fergus minding Claire one summer past We are in Maryland at Claire’s father’s, a border collie farm near Westminster, Maryland. Dave McCabe and his wife Lynn, fell in love with border collies a few years ago, first with Fergus and …
Monthly Archives: October 2007
New England, for example: I grew up in the East, and yet the New England of my dreams came from calendar photos and Robert Frost poems. The poems were written in the 1910’s and 1930’s when New England was an agrarian society where people mostly made their living from the land. They built fences of stone and carved meadows and fields out of the forest, ground grain with water power, plowed and timbered with horses. They built covered bridges, not from a sense aesthetic, but for the practical reasons of climate.
Excerpted from Associated Press reports; the boldface is mine. “University of Vermont plant biologist Tom Vogelmann, a Vermont native says autumn has become too warm to elicit New England’s richest colors.” “According to the National Weather Service, temperatures in Burlington …
You know that by preference, Claire and I boondock in Turtle most of the time. To boondock means to park in a remote area overnight. We generally don’t need the services of RV parks, and so don’t see the point …