Letters from a Hill Farm

I'm always pleased when I see our neighbor's name on my caller ID because it means blueberry season has begun! This year the first c...

 We have three favorite meals that I make only in summertime. I made a little vow to myself years ago that I would eat tomatoes only when th...

New Michael Franti & Spearhead!

Sometimes on TV you will hear the phrase "wow factor". Well, I think the cleome and cosmos both have it. This year we started two-...

This song is from 2010 but could have been written yesterday. This man makes the world a better place with his songs. 

"If you want to attract wildlife into your garden, and increasingly most of us do, the key thing is you've to abandon trying to con...

Two months after my mother died, the new Rolling Stone Magazine must have had a piece on Mick Jagger turning 30. I don't recall the arti...

  Here I am at my local Co-op today without a mask! This is the first time in 15 months! I was so much more relaxed today. It was an amazing...

I wrote about our trip to Paris after the fire at Notre-Dame, and today I am revisiting that trip on the 50th anniversary of Jim Morrison...

 If you are reading this, you will see that my blog header picture is all messed up. I can't say I wasn't warned because Kay at the...

 

A perfect month of reading. I really loved all the books, and they were very different from each other. You may notice the year in the 1920s...

  April - 5 19.  Sable Messenger  - book 2 in the Inspector Knollis series by Francis Vivian mystery 1947 Kindle finished 4/2/21 20.  The Th...

6 in all May - 1 1. Truman by David McCullough nonfiction 1992 print finished 5/12/21 July -   1 2. Bury the Lead - book 29 in the Joe Gunt...

The best story!

 I'm reading yet another old mystery by someone I had never heard of before, The Plumley Inheritance by Christopher Bush. I came upon t...

This year I did something I hadn't done since I was a kid. I bought an album called  The New Abnormal by The Strokes based on my love o...

 15.  The Black Cat Murders  - book 2 in the Heathcliff Lennox series by Karen Baugh Menuhin mystery 2019 Kindle finished 3/5/21 16.  The Sp...

Do you remember the early days of Amazon when they included bookmarks in the book orders? I still have two of them. I have a couple little d...

I had to look it up, but our presidential primary was on Tuesday, February 11, 2020. I remember being bowled over when I saw a few people at...