I live on a farm ... — apples

The foods that bind us

February 17, 2011 • apples • blogging • cookie recipes • country life • country living • culture • dating • faith • family • farm • food • friends • gifts • Holidays • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • personal • recipes • relationships • shopping • women • yarn

I made twenty dozen of these scrumptious cookies to send off to loved ones this Valentine's Day. A chocolate-based cookie, I used premium bittersweet cocoa powder, doubling the amount the recipe called for. In addition to a standard dose of semi-sweet mini chocolate chips, I added one bag of large Ghirardelli bittersweet chocolate morsels so that each cookie would have one or two extra chunks of premium bittersweet chocolate. With other interesting ingredients like whiskey and coffee, these cookies seemed the perfect choice for a Valentine confection. Everyone who received them seemed to agree. I gave my husband his own...

Spring

May 20, 2009 • agriculture • apples • art • baby • children • country life • country living • culture • faith • family • farm • farm life • farming • friendship • gardening • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • personal • pets • photography • Photos • relationships • romance • spirituality • summer • thoughts

As the world wakes up outside our windows, many magical sites and moments bubble up to be seen if you catch them at just the right moment.

Taking in Upstate Western New York

September 26, 2007 • Adirondack Mountains • Adirondack Museum • Adirondacks • agriculture • apples • art • autumn colors • blogging • Blue Mountain Lake • children's sweaters • country life • country living • dating • faith • family • farm • farming • food • free knitting patterns • knitting • love • marriage • photography • recipes • relationships • romance • travel • Upstate New York • wooden boats • yarn

Last weekend my husband and I took a three-day road trip exploring the Thousand Islands area of New York, the Adirondack Mountains, and a drive back home via Route 67 from Saratoga Springs going west toward the Buffalo/Rochester area. Our first day out, we left before dawn on Friday morning and arrived in Clayton, New York up in the Thousand Islands area before noon. We both love the feeling of being up and out on the road at early morning dark and through the various, sometimes misty, stages of dawn while much of the world is still asleep. There is...