How do you learn about new places? I do the online research, look up houses on real estate sites, look at demographics and planting zones and images, but how I really learn about a new place in the world is through books. We are visiting two different couples and traveling through Alabama for two weeks…
Tag: ocean
Travels, Friends, Dark, and Light, and the Breathing Ocean
We walked the beach on that last day. We alternately dreamed of our future farm in California and the kisses we would receive from Maryjane when we got home. The air was heady with fresh soil and sea and the birds actively flew overhead. My skin feels so good in the humidity. I can breathe better…
Intertwined with Whales
A woman on the boat showed us a picture of a dolphin head just coming out of the water. She had missed the jump. She had a long telescopic lens and a very expensive camera. Doug pulled his IPOD out of his pocket but then placed it back in. I was proud of him. Doug has an…
Balancing Health and Life with the Four Directions
Life can be hectic but it is nothing short of a beautiful winding journey. What are we to learn on this journey? We struggle to understand ourselves, those around us, our children, our jobs, our circumstances. But through all of that, flowers begin to flourish in the cultivated areas, even in the seemingly destroyed crevices of our…
Made it
Ocean.
Homestead Sitter and New Residents
The to-do lists are on hold. My back hurts and I am going on vacation Friday and I am betting that the chores will wait for me. The weedy and overgrown front yard, the tired garden beds waiting to be put under sheets of leaves for winter, the yard cleaned, and cushions needing to be put up will probably…
Farmgirl School 