Field Notes ~ Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

  This sweet face is ten years old today. Abby is 10!  I'm very grateful she's made it to ten years with no health  Let's not ji...

How ironic!  The salsa garden ripened into perfect tomatoes and peppers AFTER I started school. So even though I didn't plan on doing pr...

You are never too old for a "first day of school" photo!  And you can never have too many flowers in the classroom.  I had two mor...

The view from the bus   I'm glad the sunflowers are still upright and blooming for the children to see as they drive by on the bus on th...

Hitting the books.  Something I should have done fourteen years ago when I first arrived in Nova Scotia but it turns out, I'm a very slo...

Andre Poulet, July 2020   Andre Poulet, our beloved rooster, died Monday morning.  We noticed last week he wasn't crowing outside like h...

This is absolutely the right metaphor for 2021: the surprise sunflower growing in the weed pile.  Whatever I yank out of the gardens and wha...