Celebrating Camille’s birthday and the camaraderie of family and friends in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with a couple of side trips down memory lane, meeting new friends, and savoring good times at Mary Beth and Brandon’s wedding with the old Oilseed Community gang BANG Big bang for the buck, these gladiolus and hydrangea […]
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Two nights at the lake house, a birthday well celebrated, dinner out, day tripping on the Jersey shore, and three childhood homes revisited – June 4-6, 2018 CAMILLE’s 64TH Celebrated in high fashion by Kathryn and James, with cake, candles, ice cream, flowers, gifts, and cards. Yeah man! They will still need you and feed
Visiting Mom, picnicking with brothers, hiking the woods, and dinner with the gang – June 8 & 9, 2018 MOM AT 85 Brother James took this photo of Mom outside Shippensburg Health Care Center. She has lost a lot of weight and is too weak to walk, but loves her wheelchair and keeps her
Peonies a-poppin\’ and roses, too. A music festival and a birthday party, a car wreck, a trip to the coast, and a newly-paved road into work. PEONIES AND ROSES Nearly ten years of home ownership and our perennials are growing stronger every year. More photos with explanatory prose at: Peonies and Roses
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Perennial magic brought to us by warm weather and plentiful rain – May 2-12, 2018 FRESH ENOUGH TO SLAP Our first Fragrant Cloud of the season, captured in pixels by Tami. And Festiva Maxima, a peony showing gratitude for its new home beside its brothers and sisters. In 2010 we bought five peony
Music and friends at Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance – Saturday, May 5, 2018 WE COME FOR THE MUSIC Rising Appalachia is one of fifty bands that performed at this year’s spring music festival. If you have not heard their music, you are in for a treat! AND
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Peonies popping, construction at home and work signalling a new era, torching the old pampas grass to make way for new growth, stocking the freezer with six months of Sunday cutlets, horses, flowers, frogs, mulch, and lunch out on the town. April was seething with optimism; a perfect example of spring! R.I.P. TAMI TANK
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This month we plant seeds to put under lights in the back room, visit Camille’s family in Pennsylvania, host the first stop of the annual trail crawl, explore Hemlock Bluffs, and set back to watch the pears and red buds put on their show. SEEDING FLATS A hopeful endeavor that signals a season
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A delightful spring tradition carries the neighborhood into another season of fun and friendship – March 18, 2018 FIRST STOP: TROUTS FARM If you feed them they will come. Camille puts out some breakfasty food, Bob mans the bloody Mary/mimosa/juice bar, and the neighbors begin arriving. Here comes Doug and Buffy!
Unbelievably, things are warming up, the goats are kidding, seeds are being planted, we’re wearing shorts, celebrating birthdays, and of course, cooking and eating. Life is good! HAW RIVER PROJECT Bob was standing on the town of Pittsboro’s water intake above the Haw River dam when he took this picture. He is working on a
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