Chocolate Pie & Paper Lanterns

My latest dairy-free dessert experiment: cashew cream chocolate pie.

Made for my friend Hannah's surprise birthday picnic at Bash Bish River.

Some other Bash Bish pics, taken on a different day.

Lighting up the river for Hannah's birthday.

I have a recent obsession with making paper lanterns.

Lanterns, tea lights, and friends.

Heirloom tomatoes from the farm,
and pasta salad made by my roomie Vivian.

Laterns in the window, post river use.

Our back porch... my favorite place to be.

Spring Things...

On the Appalachian Trail

Salad for my friends...

Eggs from friends for breakfast...

Farm Girl Farm

Woodland Experimentation

Some Nature Pictures

Why I love the Berkshires...

Where to Go?

I learned to can cherries this year.

Cloud Formations

The clouds were very unusual on my Wednesday morning drive to work. I was unable to capture the most intriguing ones hanging over East Mountain as I was looking south from Route 23. When I arrived at work however, I was able to go to the other end of the parking lot to take a few shots and the result is this, four photographs patched together into one:

Click on the image to see it up close...

The photo does not really show how defined these clouds were. I still haven't had the chance to check my weather book to see what kind they might have been. Anyone know? Stratocumulus undulatus?

January, February...

Whoops, not been here in awhile. I haven't been blogging since I severely cut two of my fingers had to take an ambulance to the hospital. Now that my fingers are nicely healed, I can get back into the swing of things... and start playing accordion again!

In January I went for a walk in the woods. Found this little fellow...

More frost pictures from my bedroom windows...



Bowling Night:
Oh no!
And then they went disco on us.

It's Happening...

Winter is coming, and this is only the beginning. I wake up each morning to an ice castle. There's no heater in my room, but I still love the cold. I need only my hat and my hoodie, a pile of blankets, my old-fashioned metal hot water bottle, and a little warmth coming up through the vent in the floor where the wood stove is below.

I also took some photos of the stream in my backyard yesterday while taking a break from hauling and stacking wood closer to the house. Katie helped me out later, so many thanks to her!