Today we’re going to mix it up, a snow walk and a garden give-away all in the same post! MUSICA for slow dancing, Girlfriends. . .
Yesterday, for the first time in weeks, maybe even months, we had 
a sunshiny, lovely 42º. We scrambled into our boots and RAN ourselves out the door, for the first walk in all of that time!!! Our lawn is still covered in snow, but it’s quietly beginning to melt making a continuous little river down our driveway, joining the slightly bigger river on the street, and heading down hill to the harbor. We weren’t sure what the dirt road that takes us out to the ocean would look like, but we were willing to try, especially when we saw what was going on in the maple tree outside the kitchen window:
The photo isn’t clear, but that’s OK, those orange spots are Robins! If this beautiful day is good enough for them, it’s good enough for us!
so here we go
. . . walking very gingerly . . . It was melting, like a slushy in some parts (the good parts) but there were long lumps of shiny wet ice, and some nice stretches of mud. . . We plot which direction we should fall in case we need to, realizing no one brought a phone, if he breaks his leg, he lays there while I “run” for help. It would be sad.
The birds were singing, Joe’s trying to figure out where the sound is coming from . . .
See him? Way up top in the middle of the picture? He looks white but he’s a goldfinch, he can’t clap his hands so he shows his happiness with song.
The goldfinch has a really nice view! When we walked out of the canopy of the woods, we had our first view of the pond ~ we could see it was still partially frozen . . .
But I have to say, despite how cold it looks, the warm sun on our faces felt as much like spring as breathing into a bouquet of daffodils! Off came my hat and gloves, unzipped goes the jacket. THAT’S how nice it was out there!
I’m always behind him . . . he waits, as the ever-patient guy that he is, hands on hips . . .
Can’t just walk right by this little red fisherman’s shack and not stop for a photo . . . crazy man.
See those broken square-looking things on the ground (talking mostly to the Californians and Floridians right now)? They are giant ice chips. When a car goes through a partly frozen puddle, the ice breaks up and scatters. That’s something you don’t see all the time. See how patient Joe is while I take pictures of them?
We made it to the water, and I have to tell you, it wasn’t easy…. First we had to go through the deep snow in the yard of our friend’s house, then across their deck . . .
And down that very furthest set of stairs ~ see it back there? After that, finding a high-ish tide, we had to climb over each rock-piled breakwater, maybe five of them . . . yes, you’re right, I know what you’re thinking, it was heaven out there. (BTW, while we’re away from home, we had our bedroom windows wide open (for the first time this year); the ceiling fan was on full blast blowing out winter air and exchanging it for fresh spring air, and we knew we were going to sleep like babies after our walk to the sea!)
We discovered that others had been there first.
And then, beach booty! Big piece of dark blue beach glass!
More ice chips. I kind of love them. Like to break them with my toe. Makes a good noise. Two nature things happened out there that I didn’t take pictures of: A.) (Pat, you should probably skip this part.) Because some rather large animal was dead. I didn’t look because in my accidental half-second glance I could see it was all elbows, knees and feathers and other less identifiable furry parts, and despite my well-known interest in science, this was really not my cup of tea. Joe looked, he decided it was a coyote AND a turkey, entwined together on the beach. Wow! We skirt by it, my eyes covered with my hat, and we fall immediately into Morning Science discussion: First off “are there coyotes on the island?” I didn’t think so. Otherwise I’ve been living in a fool’s paradise thinking we had no kitty-eaters on Martha’s Vineyard. So, let’s say it was a deer. A deer and a turkey? 
“They don’t fight, they don’t eat each other.” So then here’s what must have happened: That thing (whatever it is, but it can’t be a coyote) killed the turkey, then, sadly, but deservedly, choked on a bone, fell over and died on top of it. (I just realized, this is kind of like talking about Downton Abbey.)
Anyway, lovely leaves embalmed in ice. The other nature thing we saw was a pair of birds mating on the road. That was a first, I have never seen birds do that. As a scientist, I had never thought about what those little devils did when we left them alone. We thought they were dead at first, they weren’t moving at all, we didn’t even know there were two of them, till Joe looked closer to figure out which side was up, because this was one weird looking bird. More Morning Science ensued when all of a sudden, the girl escaped! OK, I did get a picture of the chase . . .
This is the little father, in hot pursuit! Ah, spring. Quite the adventure!
Tire tracks become puddles . . . Look around, where is the best place to put your foot? Safest would probably be IN the water.
Time to go home . . . so far we have 100% not fallen down!
And we manage to keep it that way! Usually our walk is 45 minutes, yesterday it was an hour and a half. That’s from making sure we didn’t break our necks.
Front row seat to the melting of the snow. (OMG, is he not the most adorable thing in the world?)
So we all know the snow will go . . .
And waiting for us, under all the ice are our little snow drops (these are from last year, this year’s crop is frozen stiff right now, but soon). Because, it’s coming, only another week until official . . .
And in honor of the moment, when we are all teetering on the verge of spring, I would love for one of you to enjoy my favorite garden book of all time . . .
It’s called Kitchen Gardens, an unassuming little book wonderfully written by Mary Mason Campbell with illustrations by Tasha Tudor.
But it’s by far the most inspiring garden book I’ve ever read. There are other books with much more detailed information, and definitely glossier pictures, but no book has ever moved me into the garden faster and happier than this one.
It was published in 1971 and I was lucky enough to happen upon it as my first garden book. “I love how Mary Campbell wrote about the “sunshine, fresh air, and privacy of our gardens. . .”
I thought I would sign this book for you and also add a watercolor bookmark (I’ve been cutting up the bits of paper I use for testing my pen or watercolors and making bookmarks out of them).
If you want to be entered for this giveaway, all you have to do is scroll to the bottom of this post and look for the tiny word “comments” — and leave a comment. Your comment can be just one word if you like; that will be enough to enter you for the drawing. For those of you who get my blog via email, you will have to go to www.162.240.10.175/~susanbs3/susanbranch/ and scroll to the very bottom of this post and find that tiny word . . . “comments” ~ for some reason, they don’t seem to send a “comment” button in an emailed blog.
Last but not least. I told you I finished the new calendars for 2016? I thought I would give you a little preview . . . This is “October” for the wall-calendar, and don’t worry, there are pink 
pumpkins on the bottom part.♥ For thee, from me. ♥
Something else for thee: click on “shopping” at the top of the blog, scroll to the bottom of the column on the left, click on FREE STUFF! Spring-themed stationery, bookmarks, tags — and computer wallpaper!
And just one more thing I wanted to tell you: My (our, because I’m always thinking of you when I’m writing) new book is being edited even as we speak. That means the writing part is almost done, after that I’ll paint it and add the photos and hopefully we’ll have it in about six months, maybe by the time we make our first fires next autumn. I know the title. But I’m afraid to say it out loud yet. So let me get used to it, maybe next time! You’ll be the first to know!
Until we meet again . . . Love you, love us.♥ XOXO
P.S. Don’t forget . . . St. Patrick’s Day is coming!
I just LOVE your newest blog post! Sitting here waiting for class to begin, thought “I should check Susan’s blog…” and it just made my day! So glad that I’m not the only one dreaming of Springtime! AND, free Spring stuff for my computer and stationary! Happiness!
So glad you and Joe got out for your walk. I love cool crisp mornings and wish I had a view like yours to take walks on. We have fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it) have had spring like weather most of the year so far. Yesterday we had light showers but we are still in a drought. Thank you for always taking time out from your busy schedule to share the beauty of your life with us from Martha’s Vineyard.
P.S. Thanks for the chuckle you gave me from your morning science comments! LOL
I get to take my walk also! Simple pleasures☺️! love love love the kitty page!
I was so excited to see the robins in your post. I have not seen or heard one here in PA and I always start “robin watching” March 1. It was such a treat to be able to walk with you and Joe. You and Joe and the kittys are such a blessing in this troubled world that we live in. Oh, if everyone could live with such a peaceful attitude and outlook as you seem to have. I love looking at the world through your eyes. I am so looking forward to your new book. Not that I want sring and summer to rush by but it definitely is something to look forward to. Happy Spring!
Marian
i’d love to win 🙂 what a delightful book
Just breathe deep and you can smell spring, well at least that is what I smell in the March air, fresh crisp morning smells, nose tingling with a faint welcoming that means the grass is greening, the smell of the
Red Bud trees budding and wait for it……. the smell from the flower beds as the first of the Spring Flowers peek out to see if it’s time to rise and get on with the show. Love, love, love me some Spring nose bouquets!
Susan….I so look forward to your blog posts! They are always full of happiness, good feelings, beautiful art and photos, and delightful commentary. A JOY!
Loved reading this blog and going on walk in Martha’s Vineyard.
So glad your island is awakening! I loved your ice chip tutorial for this S Cali girl. We’ve got all sorts of things in bloom here, wysteria, camelias, daffodils, etc. Spring is truly coming!
Love the walk (and Jack of course). 0 snow here in my Smallville in Wisconsin. We’ve had 50+ degrees this week. Just mud and cats with spring fever.
What gorgeous dark blue beach glass! Don’t you feel special finding it? I wonder when it came to shore and how long it sat there just waiting for you to wander by, cast your eyes down and voila, “I’ve been waiting for you.” A golden moment!
Feel so lucky!
You and Joe just experienced HOPE .
Enjoyed reading the blog this morning, I felt like I was taking the walk with you. Thank you for sharing.
I love your blog and pictures! You inspire me to garden. Can’t wait to visit Martha’s Vineyard!
Happy Spring to Everyone!
Well, what a lovely walk!
Well, all except! for the coyote part!
My eyes looked like yours just reading that!
Would love to call the book my own!
Smile! Have a great day!
Thank you for another opportunity to win a priceless book. 🙂
ahhhhhhhhh breathe in this first breath of spring….and rejoice!
My hubby just made raised planter beds for me for the first time – I can’t wait to get gardening!! Please?!?! I’d treasure it!
Hi! I look everyday for a post from you. Thanks for all the past ones and future enjoyment of dishes, food, nature….all!
I am waiting patiently for our robins to appear!
o my, it would be a delight for an “old” gardener to slip away into the pages of this book, o my.
Please put my name in the hat for the book and please draw my name.
Susan, the preview of your 2016 calendar is darling (just love Girl and Jack) !
Can’t wait for your new book 😉
What a lovely entry! Makes me want to go take a walk right now.
I have tried this so many times and seem to be doing something wrong. Have just wanted to say how much I enjoy reading everything you write about. Your book, A Fine Romance, sits on my coffee table so that it is easy for me to pick up when I need a bit of England. Hope this comment goes through.
Here it is Patricia, and thank you for your kind words!
Hi, Love the pictures of walk to the beach!! A great thing for a couple to do. Happy Spring!
I love gardening and I love Tasha Tudor… the two seem to go together! It’s almost time to start planting some seeds here in Kentucky!
Here we all sit tip tapping away at our computers, sharing our weather and bird news from different parts of the country. I love it. In Northern California right now our fields and hills are bright yellow with mustard blooms. So pretty.
Would love to win the drawing!!!
Love spring, it’s my favorite time of year! Love cookbooks, love garden books, love books that help me identify birds and flowers…ahh, spring! Thank you for the opportunity to add another book to my collections… -r-
Pick me, PLEASE, pick me!
Oh how I love that you make me laugh out loud! I savor your posts for when it’s just the two of us laughing together.
xoxo
Lovely post…..how nice for us Massachusetts people to finally get out into the fresh air! But watch out for that black ice!
Oh joy! Alas, a lovely Spring walk with pictures! Ready to take our Jack Russell for a brisk walk in the neighborhood to check out cleared sidewalks and get some sun at 37 degrees this morning before I volunteer at school with the second graders. Maybe I won’t have to wear boots this afternoon! Love everything about your blog, especially pictures of things so simple. I was just reading your March calendar quote from Edna Ferber, ” Now I am doing this. Now I am doing that.” How do you know about all these people? You are an inspiration, Susan Branch!
They are the reason I am!
Thank you for sharing your life of happiness, joy, enthusiasm,
creativity, knowledge, wonderment and all your blessings.
The birds are announcing the beginning of Spring already here in the Northwest. Love to listen to them talk.
Happy Fresh Air and Sunshine!
Thanks Susan for a bright spot in my morning! Your posts are always as welcome as Spring time! Tasha Tudor is a favorite and Kitchen Gardens would be wonderful to have. Looking forward to more walks with you and Joe!
We’re feeling spring here, too, in Georgia! That tree full of robins is a hopeful sign, isn’t it? So looking forward to everything being green again! Loved this post, as always. You are such a good story teller!
I couldn’t believe the LOUD birdsong I heard this morning. Happy day! Lots of Downton Abbey action going on out there. lol
Hooray for spring! Thanks for making my morning with your post, and for opening my eyes to this lovely book.
I love Tasha Tudor and would love to win this book! Thanks for a chance to win. I enjoyed sharing your early spring walk, I love getting outdoors at this time of year!
loved your blog post! I live in Oregon and we are having true spring weather right now! Some blue skies and just a it of rain! Exciting to see my flowering plum and my daffodils and my spring beauties and my white violets all blooming merrily!
I was wearing my flannel shirt as we walked with you thru the melting snow! I love all of the treasures that are left for you at the tide’s edge….the wonderful thing is that the sea’s offerings are always different! No two stones alike…each piece of sea glass unique! I am so excited to hear you book is rapidly approaching the finished stage…..we are all so eager to have a new Susan Branch book to read and Autumn is the perfect time (of course) to curl up with a new book! I have never seen the Kitchen Garden book by Betty Crocker! The illustrations look so familiar, though, that I am wondering if the illustrator ever wrote children’s books? I will have to do a Google search to see. Thanks, Sue, for this morning’s post….a great start to the day! xoxoxo
Ok! Now, I’m so laughing here! Tasha Tudor did the illustrations in the Betty Crocker Kitchen Garden book!!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha! Just a wee bit slow on the uptake here…..too funny! xo
You figured it out you brilliant girl!
A gardening book does indeed seem like the perfect way to await Spring’s arrival! Thank you for sharing this gem with one lucky winner.
🙂
Kathleen
Oh! I would love to win the garden book. Please enter my name in the contest. Have been a longtime admirer of Tasha Tudor!
Susan, love the book! Tasha Tudor is my second favorite author / illustrator! One guess who my first favorite is… ; ) I have most of her books (written by Tasha or someone else, but always illustrated by her) like I do yours, but not this one. I even have her book of “receipts”…recipes. We are having beautiful weather here in Maryland too! Looking forward to not having to wear socks and shoes…I’m a flip flop girl at heart. Have a wonderful day!
Love, love, and MORE love!! xoxo (hugs and kisses, too 🙂 )
Dear Susan,
Love your blogs, It was nice to see pictures of snow.
In Utah we have had spring all winter. I hope next year it will be our turn to have a really good old fashion winter!
the signs of spring, I’m seeing cardinals! They are singing their song to me ~ bring on the warm days of Spring
This Blog has been such a Breath of Fresh Air <3 Loved you sharing your walk ~ the beach ~ the snowdrops to come ~ also have a black and white cat <3 have collected and loved your books and work as long as I can remember <3 also have loved Tasha Tudor's illustrations since childhood <3 love gardening, growing and using fresh herbs ~ also collect autographed books <3 This would be such a special dream to have this book from you featured in my collection <3 Blessings and thanks for all the Joy you share with us O:)
Hello Susan, It’s been along winter and now spring is just around the corner. I love the picture of the robins in the maple tree. Awesome pic. I have been keeping my eyes out also for the robins to return. We have great pictures of the robins making nests in the spring and also the new littles ones when then hatched one year. It was so much fun going though the stages last year. The mother comes back every year and builds a nest out back near the hemlock trees. The reason we took lots of pictures was cause mother robin decided to build her nest on our ladder that was hung up on the side of the shed length wise. So needless to say my husband, Cliff could not use the ladder for a long while. Happy Spring, coming soon and it was so great to hear from you. Looking forward to lots more Blogs, pictures, and tips from you this year. Thanks for all you do to make my life a happy one. Looking forward to any new books, ect the you have been working on. I would love to see the tea towels for sale again.{come, sit stay.} I want to by some more. Love them. Can’t wait for all the flowers this year to peep out. Take care!
Dearest Beautiful Sue and Joe, Thank you so much for making my DAY.Ive been sad lately due to the loss of my dearest friend of 37 yrs. Just cant believe she is gone where i can not go. I feel worse for her hubby Donald, of 58 yrs this past Jan. High School Sweet hearts. But I know she is with Heavenly Father and probley has front row seats to the most beautiful show of all. Thank you also for the beautiful bird pic”s they are so awesome , Ive never seen them before. I love you and of course Handsome Joe so cute in his French Beret. You too are made for each other. I just love seeing pic s of the fur babies too . Id love to get the wonderful book , have never seen it either.As you know im in Las Vegas area. Want to move to a nice quiet town.This place can be fun if you love night life or gambling, which ive had my share,being Italian and related to underworld figures Im ready for MV type life. I just cant move that far east or MV might be a consideration. A big Hello out to all the wonderful loving Girlfriends. I pray they are all well and that God Richly blesses them all , to include you 4 .and your dear friends in England. What a worker BEE got all your work done , soon it will be spring and boy howdy off you go no hat, no coat , no rain boots gee living dangeriously. Woo Hoo. Wishing you the best day, Week ever. Love to you all from Cheyenne n our fur babies in Henderson Nv. XXX next time if you can record the birds singing so we can all hear them , Id love that , also that way when you want to hear them again you can press play and off they go. Ok just an idea , when the birds where in the tree id love to have heard them sing too not asking too much huh Smoochies to you and Handsome Joe and the fur babies XXXMay all the joy you send out come back to you ONE MILLION times ok there i said it
So very sorry Cheyenne xoxo
Lovely book! Thanks for the walking tour. Our Utah winter was so mild this year.
I am glad you can finally get outside! All of our daffodils have already bloomed out and the peach tree is starting to bloom. Calif has skipped winter and we have had spring all winter. We are currently enjoying Spring Baseball in Arizona where it is summer.
“Kitchen Gardens” yes, please!
Love little books like this Kitchen Gardens and Love all of what Spring is about new beginnings!
Loved this one! Like you, I was a witness to a romantic moment in the animal kingdom. After waking from my comfy bed (in a darling cottage hotel called 1896 House near Williamstown, Maine), I looked through the window to see two snowy white ducks in their morning romance. I just laughed! What a way to start the day on a wonderful trip to Prince Edward Island with my knight of 35 years!
Oh so very happy spring is in the air! Thank you for the lovely words and visuals to help her arrive at my doorstep!
I can almost smell the melting snow from your pictures! I love that smell, it means Spring is not far away! I’m a New Englander living in Texas, so I rely on your blog to remind me of home. Thank you for that. 🙂 I’m also a huge Tasha Tudor fan, so I would love to win this book!!
Can’t Wait! Calendar’s and a new book – 2015 is already a great year for us Susan Branch fans…..
coffee and your fun walk in the woods blog. now back to sewing mission quilts for the needy. I will dream of winning the book!
You have no idea how much your blog, your books, your boundless inspiration has affected my life in such a beautiful way. Just knowing that someone I admire so much is reading my little comment is prize enough!
Thank you Susan~ You are a treasure!
Thank you Donna, and to all of you that I’m not having time to answer, I love you! Your comments are such a treat!
What a lovely book – I would love to have it. Here’s to warm temperatures so you can soon plant your garden.
I would love to add this book to my library! Thanks for the opportunity.
So funny you should mention letting in fresh air…As I woke this morning I was thinking how lovely it would be to open the windows when the weather warms. I think you and your writings are simply delightful~
Don’t you just love getting outside after a long hard winter? The weather has warmed up in my neck of the woods as well and my daughter and I took a walk last night. It was so wonderful to get the “stink” blowed off of us lol Your giveaways are always so heartfelt…thank you for wanting to share this lovely book with one of your readers…you’re the best, Dear Susan! <3
Hmmm, my comment still says it’s awaiting moderation???
There are 300 right now, awaiting moderation! I’m trying to get to the end, but it may be tomorrow!
That’s a good sign, Susan…everyone loves you 🙂
It goes both ways!
Hi, Susan! Thanks so much for sharing your adventure with us! I loved all the pics and commentary and I’m so glad you are finally thawing out! Sunny and predicted to be 80 degrees here today in So. Cal, with a prediction of 92 by the weekend. YIKES! Loved the October calendar page, and, yes, Jack is the most adorable thing ever! I’ve never come across the Kitchen Gardens book, but I can tell I would love it. It’s that time of year! Can’t wait for updates, and the final product, of your new book!!! Smiles to you from sunny So. Cal! Thanks so much for all the joy you bring with all you do!
I am hoping to work in my garden this weekend. Love the book give away. I’ve always been a big Tasha Tudor fan.
Hope to win the book!
Ahhh, Spring!!
I also ventured outside recently and was warmly greeted by birds singing in the trees! You see-we are not the only ones happy to enjoy Springs’ arrival!
Hi Susan! Wow, that was one action packed edge of your seat walk you and Joe took. Well, I was at the edge of my seat reading it. The ice and snow is finally melting here on LI too and I am very excited about it. It was one rough Winter for sure. Looking forward to Spring and who wins the sweet garden book. Take care. (Hi to Jack and Girl Kitty).
Sending warm spring hugs from Cape Cod!
Susan:
Just a week ago we were gearing up for another frigid, windy day with snow
on the way. Today I just saw our mailman cut across the lawns of neighbors while making his deliveries under a blue sky with more temperate winds a-blowing.
I add my thanks to the those of the other girlfriends for your inspiring blogs.
Love your pictures and comments. Would also love the book. Tasha Tudor has fascinated me for decades with her life style, stories, and artwork.
Here’s to good health and blessings to you, Joe, kitties, and all the girlfriends in your blogdom.
Lois
Jackie Boy has the sweetest, most endearing little face ever!
Love Tasha’s illustrations – I have my own little Corgi, due to her love of them.
Heaven little dogs.
Susan Branch, Tasha Tudor, gardens and kitchens all rolled into one…what a lovely gift!!
I always get “warm fuzzies” when I read your blogs…no matter what the weather is like outside.
Breaking Downton News!
Did you see? I don’t want you to miss this – Kate, Duchess of Cambridge visited the Downton set today. It is such fun to see her mingling with the cast:
dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2991133/The-Duchess-Downton-Smiling-Kate-hobnobs-stars-ITV-drama-gets-royal-visit-week.html
Enjoy!
Fun!
YAY!! A whole month of next year’s calendar dedicated to your kitties. Since I can’t have cats right now, the pictures of yours get me by. Can’t wait to see that hanging on the wall in my kitchen! My daughters have been checking out all the quotes you have on this month’s page (3/15). I have a mini calendar in my bedroom and the desk blotter by my phone this year. I feel spoiled. 🙂
Yes wasn’t the weather amazing yesterday? This past week or two has been very hard and painful for me….the sun and air really lifted my spirits. SPRING is truly on the way, hallelujah!
Ah ~ now we can embrace “Mud Season” in New England ! 🙂 I love the ever changing seasons here ! Take care, Helen
Count me in please! So glad you are starting to thaw out. Spring Break this next week. Praying for sunny days and cool breezes..
I look forward to your blogs, especially now that spring is coming. I am an avid gardener and would love to have your garden book.
Love your blog! We, too, have lots of robins now, gobbling up raisins as fast as we put them out. The snow is almost gone, the seed packets have arrived and life is good! AND thanks SO much for you Downton Abbey blogs. We miss so much dialog that your blog helps a great deal! Edie
Thank you for bring Gladys Taber into my life. Something about her writing just captures you.
Here on the mainland of eastern Massachusetts, where there is still over three feet of snow around our home, it melted my heart to hear the first spring song of a cardinal about a week ago- really gave me hope that spring would come, even though like you, our snowdrops are buried and there is no patch of grass to be seen, even after yesterdays thaw! But my husband got the bug from that cardinal too and we’ve got our pots, potting soil and seeds are gathered for starting our tomatoes and cosmos on the inside window ledges.
How enticing the pics in this lovely little book. Am almost transported to the smell of summer sun on old wood shingles…..
I just love Tasha Tudor’s illustrations. Tasha and Beatrix Potter can not be topped for cuteness. Thanks for the opportunity to win Tasha’s book.
Robins and sunshine – Spring MUST be just around the corner!
Inspiring as always. Thanks, Susan!
Oh my, how the March wind doth blow today, after yesterday’s warmth.
What a treat, to take your first Spring walk with you! I had the same feeling that I had as a young girl, in Minnesota….total spring fever! Of course, living in Florida now, I have not had that feeling in a very long time. What a joy! (Do you really think that there might be coyotes on the island?…..a mystery to solve).
Happy spring!
No, I really don’t think so. Coyotes are pack animals that are very destructive, they don’t hide somewhere being vegetarians so no one notices them . . . and no one, basically, ever mentions them. Around here, they are like the Loch Ness Monster. Some people DO see evidence, but then we begin to question that person’s sanity. Crossing my fingers that I am right!
I read your blog over my lunch hour at work and it’s such a nice escape! 🙂
Beautiful book!
Found you on accident when looking for inspiration for cooking. Thanks, local library! I love your stuff. From a youngish fan, just turned 31.
Nice to meet you Naomi!
Loved your post….my hubby and I went walking forever on that warm yesterday….almost 60 in NJ…..we also came upon a casualty…small owl looking so alive, poor thing…….Love Mary Mason Campbell book……about 25 years ago I wrote to her asking if she had a copy for sale. She did and I purchased it from her (which she was nice enough to autograph). She scolded me, however for not enclosing a stamp or stamped self-addressed envelope in my initial letter saying that it would be the polite thing to do….I’ve learned my lesson! Happy Spring!
Ha ha ha !
Susan,
Just loved the blue Sea Glass, such a PRIZE. When I am out looking for glass all the other people want BLUE…but they get upset for the pieces are so small…I told one young man looking for blue glass for his wife..just gather all the little ones and before you know it you will have enough to fill the bottom of her little vase…He did and was very happy. Second I am sending you a warning……My lovely brothers told me this one when I was young…..My question was “Why do all the women have to walk behind the men” My brother’s answer….”Because that is where the wolfs attack first” So be alert on your walks…haha
Needless to say out here on Sunny California we are in a heat wave…..and our daffodils have bloomed and moved on…. My roses are going crazy and the aroma is out of this world…My science for the day we have had a Blue Jay in our yard for two years….we found it’s nest in on of our trees. We have also spotted Robins, Crows, and the wild green birds (brought in illegally) and they are growing and growing year after year….We also some Mallards Ducks at Puddingstone Park (where we walk). If you look you can find so many wonderful things….. Thanks for a great blog and enjoyed the snow pictures…..take care and thanks for taking care of all of us and our thirst for your blogs. Love, Susan P.
Good Tidings from Texas! Thank you for being such an inspiration to each of us. You bring happy sunshine to our hearts!
Oh, my goodnes…I have been reading your blog for sometime but never comment…and now you are telling us you have the garden book, Kitchen Gardens, a book I have been coveting, hoping I would “stumble” upon on it in a used book store. I have been a Tasha Tudor and Gladys Taber fan since the ’80s, and am now an “old” grandma, who still loves all things you do. Contentment is being at home. God bless you and your creativity.
Oh the sweet smell of spring and the new buds of life. I love the morning walk and felt I was right along with you both. Your blogs always do that to me. Enjoy warmer days to come!
Such lovely photos of your vineyard coming alive to the sunshine.
I have been out today taking photos of the sunflowers that birds planted in my yard. One is exploding with at least 20 blossoms. And another has the huge moon face sunflower. And yet another is the medium size. Who knew birds could scatter with such creative variety! I live in Cambria where the water shortage is keeping us from planting much. I’m so glad that no one told the birds 🙂
Such a beautiful book! Thanks for the chance to win it!
I was feeling a little depressed this morning and took a break at work to look at your website . . . it always cheers me up! You had posted your snow walk and by the time I finished reading and looking at the beautiful pictures, I was cured! Thank you, Susan! Kathy in Central California