writer's nook

The summer office

M is spending this summer holed up in the cabin, working on a new book "The Evangelical Public Sphere in 18th Century America" --you can read a bit of what that is here.

Summer Storm

Summer storm watch

 Summer storm movie:
Moonrise Kingdom, set in Maine

real estate tour by kayak

A tour of local real estate, seen from a kayak on Crystal Lake

starter lake house

this place is amazing

love this 1950s atomic ranch with carport, right on the beach

this is the Lolly Willows lake frontage---it's almost too steep to walk down to it; we drive.

this is all you need: a hammock and a canoe

The local hardware store...

the library

the closest bar to Lolly Willows

I become a transparent eyeball

"There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, -- no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, -- my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite spaces, -- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all." --Emerson

please pardon our extreme adorableness

June in Vermont: natural sand beaches on glacial lakes

Crystal Lake's north end where nobody goes except Lolly Willowans, because you have to canoe or kayak there.....come with me??

A few miles away at Bread & Puppet Cheap Art & Political Theater for a bootleg musical production of  what they called "Less Miserable"

A "Rocking Shack"

Apple Planting

In late May 2012, we planted heirloom apple trees from Walden Heights, a small family nursery. The apple tree varieties we planted are LaFameuse, Lodi, Macoun, and Sweet 16. We also planted rosa rugosa, gooseberries, and herbs.

 

 

Mayday

Our camping tent in Tennessee for Mayday (below) is a huge inspiration!