Genius.

Sugar-bush Spring

collecting sap for Maple syrup at our friend's sugar bush in Naples



Q was "Official Lid Holder"



an extra heavy stone on this lid


a slightly older method, with tap spigots dripping directly into buckets







the steam from the boiling sap smelled so good you could almost taste it





Jack the work horse pulled a few logs (and snapped the chain on one log that was still frozen to the ground!) - Once his momentum got going you had to run and and hop and jump over logs to keep up with him!

mid-day hike

out back behind our house and down to the pond











Q under the pussy willow tree

watching these two = instant stress release

"Seasons" by Future Islands


Marlon Brando meets Joe Cocker?
My new favorite dancer! And wow that voice! (Love Dave's enthusiasm too: "I'll take all of that you got!")

People change, even though some people never do
You know when people change
They gain a piece but they lose one too

a very embarrassed dog - Don't tell him you saw these pictures

on reading books

"A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you."

- Alice Munro, from the introduction to Selected Stories.

One of my New Year's resolutions is to read more (I know, it's already March)

Bindi's first venture into the wide open outdoors!