Posts Blog Archive: 2014

October Joy

Luke and Justine got engaged! Later that day, as Caleb, Sean, Henry and I are celebrating the goo…

Indian Summer

I woke this morning to seven hawks                circling outside my window on the…

Harrisonburg's International Festival

When we moved to rural Virginia thirteen years ago, my first social event was a bonfire.  There so…

Country Life & Paper Mills

Few smells are more nauseous than paper mills.  A cold air inversion trapping the pollution in can…

Richmond, Virginia

Almost 150 years after the fall of the Capitol of the Confederacy, Richmond still has an electric …

Fall and Budapest

It was Fall when I returned from Lockn. Odd, that only the preceding day and 45 miles away, it was b…

The Lockn Festival in Ol' Virginny

So good to be home in the Virginia hills.  I didn't realize how much I missed it until I inhal…