2023 Photo a Day

 

01.01.2023 I finally found the missing ball for the favorite toy.

01.02.2023 Part of a nest blew down; such beautiful geometry and symmetry.

01.03.2023 A gloomy day going back to school.

01.04.2023 Ina's sour cream coffee cake with my changes.

01.05.2023 Baked ravioli ready for oven

01.06.2023 Three King's Day and now I don't want to put these away.

01.07.2023 It's even gloomier than earlier in week.

01.08.2023 Wet Pane di Como biga, left, and dry Italian bread biga, right. Hopefully both loaves are good today.

01.09.2023 Nelly was sleeping through virtual church when the organ music woke her grumpy self up.

01.10.2023 Where Anna is this week and next.

01.11.2023 Broken firs in many places from the Christmas Eve storm.

01.12.2023 Poppy has been so cuddly all day.

01.13.2023 Northern Starflower (Lysimachia borealis)
from archives for today's #DailyPictureTheme because
I have been sick all week and have no more photos. 

01.14.2023 Two batches of artisan bread fermenting.

01.15.2023 Negative

01.16.2023 First sun in a week and last sun for another week.

01.17.2023 Anna and Aaron coming home today!

01.18.2023 And that is it for the sun for a few days.
Storm coming.

01.19.2023 Derrick's Explorer that I "rented" for three days.

01.20.2023 I missed yesterday. I will have to double up. A storm rolled in in the afternoon over Lake Seymour.

01.22.2023 Best sandwich bread and best therapy.
I'm running out of flour.

01.23.2023 The only mixes I use are KAF.

01.24.2023 A highway cam from southern Vermont from yesterday.
We are like this today.

01.25.2023 Seymour Lake before tomorrow's storm. 
Snow day?

01.26.2023 Snow day!

01.27.2023 Eight little boules for school today.

01.28.2023 Serious ice off the mudroom.

01.29.2023
Mice slip in a gap under garage door to get into the garage.

01.30.2023 After the nip fest.

01.31.2023 Apple pie bars are good.

02.01.2023 Neat as a pin (sort of), Lucy stole half of the
thawing cake that was too close to the edge of the counter.

02.02.2023

02.03.2023 Conditions at 5 PM today.

02.04.2023 No wind chill at the moment!
6:30 AM

02.05.2023 And life begins again!

02.06.2023  Common Raven (Corvus corax)

02.07.2023 Avian flu did kill the geese.

02.08.2023 My afternoon break. No school Friday.

02.09.2023 Student retrieved my forgotten phone from car and accidentally shot his own foot.  💓

02.10.2023 Horses are out all over but not the cows.

02.11.2023 Grandkitty Remy's
new enamelled cast iron dish holder.

02.12.2023 Driving home in a little snow shower.
Barton Mountain

02.13.2023 Seeds for the littlest kids to plant today.

02.14.2023 Poppy love on Valentine's Day

02.15.2023 A smiling Poppy?

02.16.2023 Scuttlebutt at school says no school tomorrow because of ice. That will be the 3rd consecutive Friday.

02.17.2023 Drove home 18 miles unplowed,
slushy, icy roads, saw small moose!
Heavy snowfall in mountain areas.

02.18.2023 Just a little photo play with Nell's silly pic.

02.19.2023 Sick again! But no fever or COVID.
Thank goodness.

02.20.2023 Oh, Poppy!

02.21.2023

02.22.2023 Another dead spot on the road.

02.23.2023 High cirrus clouds yesterday of the big storm that isn't big enough to close school.

02.24.2023 This morning: blowing snow, 10°, -5° windchill.
Across my road into the wetlands.

02.25.2023 For Director Beth: handheld and kneeless. 
After all, I have no knees anymore!
He picked up the blade just when I snapped.

02.26.2023 The new fountain for Nelly and Poppy came.
I actually put it together myself.

02.27.2023 Remy looks creepy.
I'm finding dead bodies in bed today.

02.28.2023 Poppy comes in for scratches again.

03.01.2023 No snow today but ice and snow till end of week.

03.02.2023 Snow-capped warbler or sparrow nests in the old lilac.

03.03.2023 It's fun to watch Amy inside the grocery store in downtown Barton.

03.04.2023 We think a kestrel dropped down and caught a mouse.

03.05.2023 Dori in yesterday's big snow.

03.06.2023 Oh, Poppy!
Also, 52 yrs today.

03.07.2023 Andrew said this shot of dough in oven was beautiful.
I won't argue with that.

03.08.2023 Needs a wash and sesame seeds.

03.09.2023 OK, that's enough snow now.

03.10.2023 I finally caught a somewhat happy face with her gorgeous eyes.

03.11.2023 It will never melt and another
storm next week.

03.12.2023 Going past Willoughby Gap from hairdresser.

03.13.2023 Horses near hairdresser again.

03.14.2023 The devil puppies on New Haven pier.

03.15.2023 The last wiggle in the road before home in yesterday's storm.

03.16.2023 It stopped snowing!
Whiteouts are over!

03.17.2023 Don't be fooled: no love here
but it is the closest they ever slept together.

03.18.2023 I thought they were renovating our snack bar;
but all they are doing is building a legal head shop.

03.19.2023 Craziest photo of Dori. Ever.

03.20.2023 Lucy is confused as Poppy suddenly
steals Lucy's spot in bed.

03.21.2023 Silly Nell.

03.22.2023 Eight boules for our Great American
Cook-off at school.

03.23.2023 Classroom doors decorated for the cook off yesterday.

03.24.2023 Poor Remy wants out.

03.25.2023 I experimented with different baking method with cob loaves.
And finally figured out my lamé.

03.26.2023 Poppy had fun last night.
Not what I like to wake up to.

03.27.2023 At least the ice and snow fell off the roof
even if it has been snowing constantly for almost a week.

03.28.2023 Nelly's happy face.

03.29.2023 Last night I perfected my crusty cob but slashed too deep.

03.30.2023 Still not happy but much better.

03.31.2023 7 AM yesterday morning with the barn.

04.01.2023 I'm not going back to my breakfast store again
because of constant disability irritation and grumpy owners.

04.02.2023 Poppy was actually purring but makes the craziest faces.

04.03.2023 Pumpernickel scoring fail.

04.04.2023 Jody's photo, her reuben sandwich
on my pumpernickel. Wish I was there.

04.05.2023 Love.

04.06.2023 Willoughby Gap rainy mist. No ice-out yet.

04.07.2023 Jody found the first bumble queen!

04.08.2023 Two cannabis stores in a town of less than 2,000?

04.09.2023 Anna finally learned how to remove backgrounds on her phone. She did my pic of Poppy photobombing my dough proofing canisters. I then added a beachy background.

04.10.2023 Semolina. I don't know if I like it so I have to do again.

04.11.2023 The cookie bag is empty?

04.12.2023 Peasant loaves bagged for Amy and Jody.

04.13.2023 Amy says Poppy has "filled out."
Here, Poppy is keeping a close eye on Dori, who is scared of the cat.

04.14.2023 I bet ice-out on Seymour happened yesterday.

04.15.2023 Today will be the 3rd day over 70°F.

04.16.2023 A running crab spider.

04.17.2023 Aarrgghh! I don't even know what this tree is without leaves. It is suddenly huge this season.

04.18.2023 Hedgehugs from Jody.

04.19.2023 Even Poppy's yawns look grumpy; but she's not.
She's actually one of my sweetest cats ever.

04.20.2023 Mama's Bread by Martin Philip

04.21.2023 Amy found Chionodoxa forbesii, which in New England has only been collected in Vermont and never documented in our county before now. Not native; garden escape.

04.22.2023 Philip's Mama's Bread: Less salt, more water, used proofing box and tall pullman pan.

04.23.2023 Finally, my first flower!

04.24.2023 The only thing I did on spring break was try to perfect my wheat bread: here it is maple wheat.

04.25.2023 I made a skillet cookie that is still waiting to be eaten.

04.26.2023 Nelly and Lucy often hold hands.

04.27.2023 I finally figured out that Poppy's funny grumpy faces are a reaction to the camera.

04.28.2023 An unidentified beetle. 

04.29.2023 Bedtime Tales

04.30.2023 My fifth daffodil!

05.01.2023 Pre-K created insects out of Legos.
Sort of. 

05.02.2023 Steve re-potting our African daisy seedlings in our pre-K.

05.03.2023 Andrew's view from hotel room for conference at Ellis Island.

05.04.2023 White-strapped sandals on its tiny feet?

05.05.2023 Andrew rode Amtrak home to DC.

05.06.2023 They do play occasionally.

05.07.2023  The best thing yesterday was the bread? Yes.

05.08.2023 I found this mix in the pantry so I baked it and it's good.

05.09.2023 My amaryllis, after 18 months of neglect, has four blooms.

05.10.2023 My third attempt to start African daisies inside is failing.

05.11.2023 Colt's foot is out all over.

05.12.2023 Oh, Poppy!

05.13.2023 After an entire year, I still don't know if this is spider or moth.

05.14.2023 We live or die on our own now.

05.15.2023 Amy's lilacs are about 3 weeks ahead of mine.

05.16.2023 Birthday cake with cake bugs!

05.17.2023 The birthday party wore Dori out.

05.18.2023 Cherry or plum? I have to return to Holland to figure it out.

05.19.2023 Too many contrails out of Quebec City yesterday.

05.20.2023 Poppy slept in the crook of my arm. Lucy was so sad.

05.21.2023 Wheat sandwich loaf.

05.22.2023 Blueberry ricotta cake

05.23.2023 An ID from last summer: Coenosia tigrina
Native to Europe

05.24.2023 Genus Melanolophia found by student.

05.25.2023 Only a handful of trees have blossomed; half of them damaged by killing freeze early in week with another killer tonight.

05.26.2023 The high school kids baked bugs for me yesterday.

05.27.2023 Now I remember why I love Vermont.

05.28.2023 My new microwave finally came!
(The 10 yr old one blew up.)

05.29.2023 Amy shot this beautiful photo of a beautiful stonefly.

05.30.2023 Red-belted Bumble Bee (Bombus rufocinctus)? 
S3 (uncommon) ranking in Vermont even though it is secure globally.

05.31.2023 The 2nd ballooning spiderling found on my car at school.

06.01.2023 And Amy found a beautiful Galium Sphinx.

06.02.2023 First mowing is in.

06.03.2023 The tree. Again.

06.04.2023 So many ticks lately that I find it hard to sleep.

06.05.2023 Still plugging away at the bread. Crusty cob.

06.06.2023 Not smoky yesterday . . . but now? It's awful.

06.07.2023 Smokey sunrise in Orleans yesterday.

06.08.2023 Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) at school.

06.09.2023 It is Golden Alexander.

06.10.2023 Holland, Vermont

06.11.2023 It was cold for her morning nap!

06.12.2023 A swallowtail poorly caught in flight.

06.13.2023 Amy has become such a great naturalist.
Pale Beauty (Campaea perlata)

06.14.2023 I wish I could visit my children in New Haven and DC.
I wish it so badly.

06.15.2023 Good night, Poppy.

06.16.2023 A happy soldier beetle on Steve's arm.

06.17.2023 I don't like hosta but I love these at school.

06.18.2023 My Phoebe thru the window and screen with the phone.

06.19.2023 My Andrew and my Danielle celebrating Juneteenth in DC

06.20.2023 WTF? What are these cats doing with their time?
Not doing their job, obviously.

06.21.2023 I should be counting all of the ticks this year. This dog tick was on the sneaker of a small child at school yesterday.

06.22.2023 Everybody seems to be haying this week.

06.23.2023 My neighbors are haying.

06.24.2023 On the last day of school, I always see fields of buttercup and ragged robin.

06.25.2023 Evansville Trading Post ice cream is open for summer.

06.26.2023 Cows in the field.

06.27.2023 One mile up the road.

06.28.2023 Amy and Dori found a baby robin and monitored it until it found a hiding place.

06.29.2023 Amy's green frog

06.30.2023 Neither rain nor cold nor air alerts keep Amy's summer program away from Crystal Beach

07.01.2023 When you are stuck inside on smokey days, you have to bake. Ghirardelli cake mix with ganache.

07.02.2023 I spend my days watching the airnow app now.
Best day in a week today.

07.03.2023 One wing of a Polyphemus Moth (Antheraea polyphemus)

07.04.2023 Perplexed Remy

07.05.2023 Despite the a/c, TV, fans, ear muffs and a noise machine, little Milo is suffering from the fireworks in New Haven.

07.06.2023 Love is a claw in your leg.

07.07.2023 Dori's new haircut.

07.08.2023 Yesterday's storms took down 3 trees here and were very scary.

07.09.2023 Jody has the church garden well started.

07.10.2023 Good morning, Nelly.

07.11.2023 Barton River in Orleans this morning. All roads are closed.

07.12.2023 Orleans Library yesterday.

07.13.2023 Amy's Sumi says hi.

07.14.2023 It only took me a month to move my larvae into appropriate enclosures.

07.15.2023 Skillet cookie with Ghirardelli dark chocolate chip cookie mix.

07.16.2023 The current plague: deer flies.

07.17.2023 How you should spend a rainy Sunday.

07.18.2023 Smokey sunset in West Haven

07.19.2023 Mornings are tough for some of us.

07.20.2023 My beloved blueberry buckle was nearly a complete failure.

07.21.2023  Tarnished Plant Bug (Lygus lineolaris)

07.22.2023 Lucy had a mouse but lost it.

07.23.2023 Tarnished Plant Bug (Lygus lineolaris) 

07.24.2023 Tarnished Plant Bugs are very small.

07.25.2023 A new generation of gall midge (Rhabdophaga strobiloides) to raise at school in the spring.

07.26.2023  Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle (Propylea quatuordecimpunctata)

07.27.2023 Soapwort has 5 petals; phlox has 4
.

07.28.2023 Crust was better but sauce was not.

07.29.2023 These may be shining flower beetles, fungus eaters, Genus Olibrus. I hope they are. 

07.30.2023 Italian sausage and peppers and brown rice.

07.31.2023 A Syrphid fly, Syritta pipiens

08.01.2023 A calligrapher fly, another syrphid, from iPhone.

08.02.2023 A Virginia Ctenucha
(Ctenucha virginica) moth on yarrow.

08.03.2023 My first air fryer BBQ chicken.
This machine has changed my life.

08.04.2023 Some parasite laid eggs on this Asian lady beetle.
Poor thing.

08.05.2023 Find the bug (and it's a true bug).

08.06.2023 Cookie time!

08.07.2023 Lucy always watches over me when we are outside.

08.08.2023 Nailed it!

08.09.2023 Each time one goes out, one must roll about in dirt.

08.10.2023 A brand new tiny Spotted Tussock Moth (Lophocampa maculata), using slender silk, floated down onto my leg on yesterday's bug hunt.

08.11.2023 The lost photo was found: a Sharp-angled Carpet - Hodges#7399 (Euphyia intermediata) resting in the brush. 

08.12.2023 Poppy came back to bed last night.
But then she left. :-(

08.13.2023 A Stilt-legged Fly (Family Micropezidae).
You could call them ant mimics.

08.14.2023 Just a snail and a caterpillar.

08.15.2023 Beautiful hot mats from Anna from her Cuba trip.

08.16.2023 Lucy always watches for danger when we are out.

08.17.2023 Baking day yesterday.

08.18.2023 A Chrysomelid beetle larva that I lost. 😭

08.19.2023 Isn't it cookie time?

08.20.2023 Lucy still likes to nap in her middens (mini-midden today).

08.21.2023 All of us now have a Fullstar Vegetable Chopper and Anna made a week of salad with it.  

08.22.2023 Pizza (and brownies) for Jody

08.23.2023 It's cold enough already for blankets for morning naps.

08.24.2023 My group's brain design game model.

08.25.2023 The new septic system awaits state inspection.

08.26.2023 Ten pounds of pepper jack and 6 pounds of carrots mysteriously appeared at my house.

08.27.2023 One of my maples turning early and probably because of stress.

08.28.2023 This is what happens when I don’t use a harness of parchment paper like Amy taught me.

08.29.2023  A syrphid fly for the first day of school.

08.30.2023 I finally got a new office chair.

08.31.2023  Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens)

09.01.2023 First day of fall. 😢

09.02.2023 Mountain ash under maple. 

09.03.2023 A cold Dark Paper Wasp (Polistes fuscatus) was waiting for me on my camp stool while it warmed.

09.06.2023 I love my blueberry muffins from this year's berries.

09.07.2023 Toppings are too much work.

09.08.2023 My birthday boy (in Paris a few years ago).

09.09.2023 I finally got my snowflake thermometer pinned on my office wall at school.

09.10.2023 I finally found a kitty in the tree. After a year.

09.11.2023 My first baby back ribs and they look good but were dead dry. Ugh.

09.12.2023 We are having supper issues.

09.13.2023 Aaron's Rushdie portrait

09.14.2023 Air fryers get hot.

09.15.2023 Lemon poppy seed and banana chocolate walnut mini-loaves

09.16.2023 Steve wants us to do this recipe in class. I don't know.

09.17.2023

09.18.2023 John's cider press is now in a new, safe home.

09.19.2023 Reflected lamp in boiled cider from Gerry's orchard.

09.20.2023 Mass chicken pens at Amish neighbor's farm.

09.21.2023 K made apple pizza with my buttered wheat bread, cheddar, apple, and bacon bits.

09.22.2023 Spotted Tussock Moth (Lophocampa maculata) at school.

09.23.2023 The Littles picked apples and Gerry brought one of his cider presses and the entire school ended up doing an apple unit.

09.24.2023 Tussock moth caterpillars are everywhere at school.

09.26.2023 Milford, CT 1735 Boston Post Road marker 

09.27.2023 Heat is on, frosty nights; summer is over. 😢

09.28.2023 The never-ending Jerusalem artichokes are blooming.

09.29.2023 Willy Worm, created by a student for me, is back safe at school after a night with my cats.

09.30.2023 This is a very smokey weekend. Yesterday in Morgan.

10.01.2023 A very poor iPhone pic of a lovely woolly bear in the garage.

10.02.2023 First time making chicken and lentils in Brod & Taylor bread proofer/slow cooker.

10.03.2023 Wheat bread recipe that is a new favorite.

10.04.2023 A pond in Morgan.

10.05.2023 Bedtime is so sweet.

10.06.2023 We actually ran out of Lucy cookies but they came yesterday. Thank goodness.

10.07.2023 The little coleus has leaf pattern in the leaf. 

10.08.2023  Pumpkin whoopie pie from new village bakery. Too sweet.

10.09.2023 Andrew made these pumpkin whoopie pies.

10.10.2023 Cookie eyes

10.11.2023 I forgot the bread was proofing. 

10.12.2023 Bringing in the winter silage.

10.13.2023 A view of the weather this week.

10.14.2023 Poppy

10.15.2023 Nelly

10.16.2023 Poppy

10.17.2023 Why did you stop the neck scratches?

10.17.2023 Day 1: Pumpkin decomposition

10.19.2023 Day 2

10.20.2023 Day 3: 2 flies, a slug and a pile of chickadees.

10.21.2023 Nelly doesn't wake up well.

10.22.2023 Poppy ran off with my bandaids!

10.23.2023 Ina's Sour Cream Coffee Cake

10.24.2023 2 loaves this past weekend.

10.25.2023 Tamaracks have started to change.

10.26.2023 Tamaracks getting brighter.

10.27.2023 Day 3 even brighter

10.28.2023 Morgan tamaracks

10.29.2023 Peak color and losing needles now.

10.30.2023 Starlings

10.31.2023 Amy is Charlie Brown's Lucy today at school and none of the kids know who that is. 🤯

11.01.2023 They are still alive!

11.02.2023 Week 2 (3?) of pumpkin decomposition. It isn't.

11.03.2023 Amy fixed my walker!

11.04.2023 Bedtime

11.05.2023 Bedtime

11.06.2023 Now I can follow Andrew online in his Ubers (to the Kennedy Center for the National Symphony Orchestra here).

11.07.2023 It is sort of decomposing but there are no bugs.

11.08.2023 It's starting to look pretty bad.

11.09.2023 Thanksgiving cactus blooming red with snow falling outside of window.

11.10.2023 This is what you get when you peek and poke bread machine too often.

11.11.2023 Redemption (KAF Scottish toasting bread)

11.12.2023 My burn is nearly healed and it was the walker handlebar and bandages that kept it in bad shape.

11.13.2023 These apples were a beautiful pink inside.

11.14.2023 Apple cake: it is OK but won't make it again.

11.15.2023 Our dried sweet corn actually sprouted.

11.16.2023 My two dying cottonwoods in stick season.

11.17.2023 Our corn is growing like weeds. 

11.18.2023 Red sky at morning.

11.18.2023 Amy and I got flu and covid vax downtown yesterday, close to home with no 30 mile drive. Yay!

11.20.2023 I am so tired of pizza.

11.23.2023 Noon yesterday at school.

11.22.2023 My other Thanksgiving cactus.

11.23.2023 Poppy finally discovered television.

11.24.2023 Home sick on Thanksgiving celebrating with skillet cookie. 😵

11.25.2023 Andrew's Tarte Tatin.

11.26.2023 Dori in the car on her way to visit Lucy.

11.27.2023 Poppy always puts on the grumpy face for the camera.

11.28.2023 Very wet snow caused power outages, a snow day, and brought down 3 of my trees.

11.29.2023 Just watching TV at bedtime. 

11.30.2023 Lucy drools when I eat.

12.01.2023 Filling the manure pit. 

12.02.2023 I may not be best crust maker but pie was so good.

12.03.2023 My house is invisible in the fog.

12.04.2023 My knees were so swollen that Amy did my baking for me.

12.05.2023 More heavy, wet snow and more outages and closings.

12.06.2023 It was supposed to be a sunny day.

12.07.2023 My new ($800) studded winter tires are awesome.

12.08.2023 The sun came out but temps below 20°F for many days.

12.09.2023 Remy loves Andrew.

12.10.2023 Two of my girls: Anna and Danielle

12.11.2023 Lucy's bonus cookie and so far we have a two hour delay.

12.12.2023  Trees were a mess during the storm. I was plowed in and now I am sick. 

12.13.2023 The mess from the storm.

12.14.2023 Celastrus scandens
American bittersweet
New Haven

12.15.2023 My office was moved.

12.16.2023 The perfect comfort for sick days.

12.17.2023 Remy

12.18.2023 I immediately relax when I am sick and cats touch me.

12.19.2023 One week ago today. My first go with it.

12.20.2023 Recovery without Lucy and cats would be slow.

12.21.2023 I returned to school yesterday!

12.22.2023 My moved office is now complete.

12.23.2023 10 days after I succumbed to Covid, Andrew did too. This is Paxlovid. He could have it; I could not.

12.24.2023 My moved office is done. Except for two drawers we forgot.

12.25.2023 Remy under the tree with Vermont snowflakes and the Warhols on the wall.

12.26.2023 I managed to make myself Christmas Eve supper.

12.27.2023 Poppy's grumpy camera face.

12.28.2023 Finally beginning to feel better.

12.29.2023 Andrew is now negative, too.

12.30.2023 I managed to make an apple pie.

12.31.2023 The end.