Flowers of June Tooth
Let us present to you a June Second, 2018 album of flowers blooming in and around the yard at Wishetwurra Farm. Chive flowers are pale and pleasing. It’s iris time. […]
Category Archives: West Tisbury
Making Do. Domestic Kintsugi?
While I did not experience the United States’ Great Depression of the 1930’s, I am the child of grandparents and parents who did. The depression changed and marked them. Those times […]
Wishetwurra Farm, April 28, 2018
Despite the joyful and consuming arrival of last fall’s miracle, Coquina the Wonderdog, and other diversions such as the trip to Japan, Wishetwurra Farm still functions. Winter was hard on […]
Off on the Ridge Trail
When I was young, fields and woods started at the edge of our yard, and went southwest for miles, with hardly a house to be seen. In my short lifetime […]
Just For Pretty
Some things are “just for pretty”. Like this post. February has been wet and warmer than usual. The snowdrops, oddly, were later than usual. When the snowdrops come, it’s a […]
Old Upside Down Bottoms
Off-season in late February, at a private boat landing on Town Cove, the Pond water is high. So high that access to the old dock is boots-only. Along the edges […]
A Stop at the Dam.
Let’s take a walk. Let’s go down into the valley where there’s some water. On the Tiasquam River is an impoundment that dates back over three hundred years. Look’s Pond. […]
Snowdrops Are Late This Year
Snowdrop time has finally come to Wishetwurra Farm. For six weeks or more, the snowdrops have been teasing us. Once the earth thaws in late winter, snowdrops are on the […]
Late Snowdrops.
Snowdrops (Galanthus) are our harbinger of spring. Some years, I have seen them blooming before the New Year. Not this year. It’s the third of February, and the snowdrops have […]
Go Figure, OK?
I’m not always a good person to go for a walk with, especially when I have a camera in hand. I get distracted. People don’t even expect me to keep […]
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