Slice of Exurbia

Repurposing Fall Cuttings As the fall flowers faded with the first frost, we came up with a new solution for our otherwise empty conta...

Home is where the heart is? No, it's where Google maps puts the location marker.  Google maps had the location marker for our home som...

En Plein Air -  A French expression that means “in the open air” is used to describe the act of painting outdoors with the artist’s su...

Throughout the Hudson Valley there are remnants of old stone walls that once marked boundaries of fields and property lines.  The stone...

You know it is summer when you see the orange daylilies by the side of the road, by a mailbox, behind old stone walls or on the lak...

In these politically charged pre-primary days it is great when we can find some common ground. Sunday marks the 31st anniversary of Na...

Three summers ago, we inherited an old farm pond and learned quickly about the need for maintaining the pond to prevent overgrowth of alg...