Creative risk evangelist, errant #flaneur, serial optimist, wordsmith. I ♥︎ to wa/onder, #carpemidlife, tele H2O #ski, #doodle, #sail, #cycle, garden, learn...
Nothing today hasn’t happened before:
"Before a person dies, you talk to them. They die, and you still want to talk to them."
It’s time for an icehouse window installation update. I’m pleased to announce fenestrated facades on all four sides! Aside from window and door trim, three out of four elevations — east (above),...
One of the most refreshing midsummer garden staples is the cucumber. Cuke. Cucumber. Refreshing no matter what you call it. I think we’re just about ready to start transplanting our spring-start...
Gardening is a bit of a balancing act. And a gambling act! So many variables: spring climate conditions, high tunnel preparation, readiness of transplants,… And the exuberance of gardening after...
Here is a watercolor tribute to these brilliant wild neighbors brightening our day with their own unique Easter color.
This is my 243rd Rosslyn update in daily succession. It completes an 8-month streak of daily old house journaling, the 2/3 mark in my quest to post every day for one year. I marked an earlier...
I am not quite sure where I belong but I have always been engaged with where I am. I like to think this gives me both a resistance to nostalgia and a breadth of perspective but I could be wrong. —...
No progress on the icehouse project today. None. By design. And by the benevolence of mother nature. Today we celebrated a Saturday snow day! Although Saturdays and Sundays are usually rest days for...
Today I offer you a quick follow-up to my February 4, 2023 post, “Genre Resistance“. In diving a little deeper into the genre fluidity of Rosslyn Redux (in general) and redacting Rosslyn in particu...
What is the cross-country skiing equivalent of schussing down a powdery piste? If it exists — some etymologically Nordic, onomatopoeicly swooshy reference for scissoring smoothly across a snowy...
Back for anothernival homecoming.Fluttering flurriesobscuring sunset,muting day to night, ground mounding, roundingwith fresh fallen snow.The sound of no sound,snowflakes silencing,softening contou...