harvesting balsam seeds

the cones are waiting at the very top of the trees.

a long handled clipper and 

a ladder is involved.

and i am not on it.

here are the seeds, scrunched from the cones.

drying on the three season porch up in vt.

heading to the freezer for the winter.

they will be ready for the sprouting bed in the spring.

do you do any seed saving?

10 things we love about hannah

• her independent and sassy fashion sense.
• the way she throws dinner parties for her friends.
• her HUGE generosity of spirit.
• her strong and gentle leadership style.
• her explosive guffaw/hyena laugh. it is irresistible.
• she can fell a tree with her very own axe. (no kidding).
• she is a LOYAL friend.
• her bear hugs. with thanks to Abi Tim's genes.
• her love of Latin musica. and how she loves to share...
• her chocolate chip cookies. she can give Liz, the master, a run for her money.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY #22 HANNAH!!!!

xoxox Marmie and PPDO

bread and puppet treat

we couldn't resist.

bread and puppet "cheap art".

it's such a great invitation to ponder...

what does when make you think of?

bread and puppet!!!

we drove up and over the mountains to the amphitheatre at the big town gallery in rochester. here's the bread and puppet bus and orchestra pit.
the backdrop.
wall streeters on stilts...and the collapse of the economy.
a quiet moment.
karl marx returns from the dead to remind us that "money is the invisible diety".
"sheep note singers", in the tradition of shape note singers.

henry's labor day weekend in vermont

evidence

of fall's progress...

left the windows open last night and woke up this morning at "a bit of earth" with a chill in the air...52 degrees. 

asters and goldenrod in lovely drifts in the meadow.

heavy, red/orange clusters of berries on the mountain ash at the front porch.

drifting mist as i drove early along interstate 89 to montpelier to do food shopping at hunger mountain food co-op.

huge, handsome stacks of firewood at everyone's back door or woodshed.

swapping chrysanthemums for tired impatiens in the tub out by the road.

wool on the needles again. shorn, carded and spun from the sheep at camp. purchased at the fair in august.

happy long weekend, blogland friends!

please send good thoughts to our friend judy, who has been re-hospitalized.

 

overlooked beauty

sometimes what i find in the garden astounds me.