Spring recipes from three bloggers I love, three books for the season, and everything else on my radar this week It has been a good week. I went back to yoga after a long break, which felt more significant than it probably sounds. And yesterday I got what I think was winter’s last hurrah —…
A joyful Easter, a grey day that was exactly right, a new book about wartime Paris, and a New York townhouse worth watching twice. This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase I will earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases….
Easter is the holiest weekend of the year for me — the one that quiets everything else down and asks you to pay attention This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase I will earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases….
Three comforting Easter side dishes, three spring books, and a quiet end to Holy Week This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase I will earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. It has been a busy week and I am…
A weather correction, a manicure problem, the story of Rose Valland and a Parisian apartment I watched twice. This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase I will earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. I owe the weather desk a…
The garden center got me again, five women who changed the world without being thanked for it, and I cannot contain myself about the new Monty Don show. This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase I will earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I…
Spring has arrived, the containers are ready and I found three books that are going straight to the top of the list This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase I will earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. I have…
April means peonies, Easter, open windows and the particular pleasure of a spring afternoon with a good book. Here is what the month looks like from here. This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase I will earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn…
Four days of sunshine, sneezing and something new coming up out of the ground every morning. I looked out the back door Sunday morning and there they were. Four peonies, unfurling themselves out of the pine straw as if they could not wait to put on their yearly show. Every single day now something new…
Throwing in the towel on the circle, two films worth watching and a weekend that has cocktails, bikes and absolutely nothing on the schedule I am throwing in the towel on the circle. Five years. Five years of planting, hoping, watching things bloom beautifully for exactly two months and then finding out the deer consider…
Is it spring? Is it winter? According to the Pinecones & Acorns weather desk, it is officially neither. This week we had overnight temperatures in the high twenties and thirties and then climbed into the seventies by afternoon. I left the house in a parka and came home after lunch in a t-shirt. I think…
It was still dark outside when the first chirp came. Then another. Then another. Bill never moved. The pups never moved. It was just me and the birds, and apparently we had all decided — or they had decided and informed me — that it was time to begin the day. Did you know there…
