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By Susan Barrett Price Posted on November 11, 2019

Plant-strong resources

Adopting a plant-based diet isn’t just about giving up meat and dairy. I’m still exploring the best ways to prepare tasty, nutritional meals without spending all day cooking and without … Continue reading Plant-strong resources

Categories: lake lifeTags: plant-based, vegan, whole food
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on November 10, 2019

Five years of plant-based eating

Waffle recipe Combine in a high-speed blender: 1 small, very ripe banana, smashed 1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats 1/2 cup water or nondairy milk 2 Tbs. ground flaxseeds or chia … Continue reading Five years of plant-based eating

Categories: lake lifeTags: diet, plant-based, vegan, whole food
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on July 27, 2019

Coneflowers and friends

On the sunny side of our cabin, we have hundreds of cone flowers (Echinacea), with a few black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia) and rampant oregano (Origanum vulgare). The cone flowers are very … Continue reading Coneflowers and friends

Categories: fauna, flora, lake lifeTags: bees, butterflies, echinacea, monarch butterflies
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on July 12, 2019

St. John’s Wort

When we moved here for the lake view, I discovered the property we bought came with flowers. I had to ask my gardener friends the names of everything. I didn’t … Continue reading St. John’s Wort

Categories: flora, lake lifeTags: dye, St. Johns Wort, weeds, wildflower
Ants tending the aphids on a curly dock plant
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on July 11, 2019July 12, 2019

Of Ants, Aphids, and Dock

I should call my garden Scheherazade. She tells me a thousand and one stories. Nothing gets lopped as long as there is a tale to be told. Today we have … Continue reading Of Ants, Aphids, and Dock

Categories: fauna, flora, lake lifeTags: ants, aphids, rumex
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on June 21, 2019July 12, 2019

Garden Gone Wild

Last year, hordes of monarch butterflies came through, enjoying a flyway along the shore of Lake Ontario. They were such a delight that I decided to go all in on … Continue reading Garden Gone Wild

Categories: flora, lake lifeTags: wild flower garden
1953. Climbing team after Hermann Buhl summits Nanga Parbat
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on May 24, 2019

Courage to live on the edge

I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that, for the past month, every time I hear a wave crash against our eroding shore, I flinch. I’m hypervigilante and my brain … Continue reading Courage to live on the edge

Categories: Headlong, lake lifeTags: Hermann Buhl, Nanga Parbat, Pakistan
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on May 4, 2019

Mergansers on Lake Ontario

I think of days like today as “white days,” when the sky is bright but overcast and the horizon disappears. Everything is calm and pale-pearly gray. The mergansers (diving ducks) … Continue reading Mergansers on Lake Ontario

Categories: fauna, lake lifeTags: loons, mergansers
bee house
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on April 22, 2019May 4, 2019

The other bees

When we moved into a log cabin in June 2015, this city girl stressed out over the fact that carpenter bees loved our wooden home as much as we did. … Continue reading The other bees

Categories: fauna, lake lifeTags: bees
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on April 21, 2019

Easter: annual do-over

This year Easter coincides with the late lake spring. It’s a moment to think about starting over, regeneration, second chances. Blooms are on their way, but today we have buds … Continue reading Easter: annual do-over

Categories: flora, lake lifeTags: Easter, spring
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on April 19, 2019

Flowers, April 19

I went out with an extension tube on my camera lens this morning. The flowers still scarce, I like crouching down for a close-up, letting their color fill my gray-weary … Continue reading Flowers, April 19

Categories: art life, flora, lake lifeTags: flowers, glory of the snows, hyacinth, lavender, queen anne's lace, spring
Lake Ontario
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on April 8, 2019

April = Anxious

I’m looking hard for evidence that the dozens of bulbs I planted lakeside are sprouting. I’m trying not to look at the shifting and settling and possible disappearance of stones … Continue reading April = Anxious

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