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Monthly Archives: June 2019

Setting Turkey and New Chick Portraits

June 24, 2019by tompostpile 1 Comment

A fine sunny morning is underway. I go upstairs and go out on the deck to look at the turkey nest below. Chicks have hatched, and are starting to move […]

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Setting Turkey: Peep Peeps!

June 20, 2019by tompostpile 1 Comment

While this post is not about the cat and the hat… the turkey mom sat and sat and sat. How about that! I looked over the deck rail, and said […]

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A Vermont Digression

June 19, 2019by tompostpile Leave a comment

We tend to get wrapped up in the affairs of home and domestic life. There are chores quotidian, seasonal to-do lists, the garden to tend, and all the deferred maintenance […]

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Setting Turkey. The Wait Ends.

June 18, 2019by tompostpile 4 Comments

For weeks, the turkey hen has been incubating her clutch of nine eggs. It’s a hot morning. She makes a quiet “chuck” call as I approach the deck railing, from […]

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Setting Turkey. A Long Wait.

June 17, 2019by tompostpile 4 Comments

More years than not, a hen turkey will choose a place in our yard, or right next to the house, for a place to start her year’s family. The nest […]

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June Iris

June 17, 2019by tompostpile 1 Comment

A bouquet of June Iris… Top views. Side views Purples. Whites. Rain-dappled. So ruffled… We brought a stem in the other day. It had fallen to the ground. Its scent […]

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The Order of the Garter at Wishetwurra Farm

June 12, 2019by tompostpile 1 Comment

Yesterday and the day before brought us a nice drenching 1.32″ rain. In the afternoon things cleared, and I went to check the new garden, where the tomatoes are being […]

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An Iris at Dawn

June 11, 2019by tompostpile 1 Comment

Somebody handed us a rhizome a year or two back, and said, “Try it, you’ll like it!”. So we’re trying it. This year it has sent up a flower. The […]

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Woods Hole Saturday Scenes.

June 4, 2019by tompostpile 1 Comment

The first Saturday of each month is a contra dance night at the Woods Hole Community Hall. One excellent custom with contra dancing is that it’s usually done to live […]

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Woods Hole Fox

June 3, 2019by tompostpile Leave a comment

Christine and I were walking to the car in Woods Hole, when we noticed four or five people just standing, leaning on the School Street railing next to WH’s Eel […]

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