Not so much outside – it’s snowing again out there -- as here on the Green. March has arrived, and as far as I’m concerned, that’s spring. So here we go.
This blog could do with a bit of spring. I just finished a freelance piece for the April/May issue of the Virginia-based magazine I still write for. Periodical time is always a little (and sometimes a lot) out of synch with the real world, but the pictures my editor had sent up for me to work with – garden beds chock full of bearded iris and pinks and peonies about to bloom, blue skies with fluffy white Constable clouds, and green grass: the pictures were making me crazy. Not so much homesick (well, a bit) as much as cranky. Grass? I thought to myself; is there grass under all this snow? Are you positive?
I’m sure you get the picture, and it’s not a pretty one. Accordingly, I have put myself on notice: snap out of it, self.
So, what’s in store for March? How about some spring cleaning? Things are a bit musty on the “About” page, for instance. Miranda, the post that’s there, was the very first one I wrote for this blog, and plenty has changed since then. Some of the stuff in the sidebar could use a good dusting, too. A full scale remodel? We’ll see.
Photos? The options outside are still a bit limited – snow, bark, snow-covered bark – but I’m pretty sure I’ve never mentioned the small trove of needlework that has come down through the family to me – a few quilt tops, lots of embroidery, and crocheted and tatted lace. There’s no reason not have something beautiful here everytime I post. (Time to track down those instructions for building a lightbox). And there will be flowers, even if I have to wade through the snow to the store to fetch them.
The barometer above I photographed last weekend, in the restored 1890 farmhouse at at Billings Farm, in Woodstock, Vermont. This was there in the house, too:
Inspirational, isn’t it?
