Here's to a day well lived.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
