some days, not so much.

The old-timer Mindemoya farmer who gave us our iris does well with tulips too

Grocery shopping in Mindemoya took up the fore-noon.The afternoon’s big accomplishment was a trip to the dump. (Of course, both took much longer than necessary due to road construction.)

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The present-day and the close-at-hand, the private, small scale wild places, are as astonishing as the long-gone and the far-afield. —Robert McFarlane
As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens. —Stephen Graham