Christmas 2011

Many people don’t take extra time off at Christmas. I hear a lot of, “Well, it’s quiet, so it’s the best time to work!” Nonsense. If you just take a…

The Machine Shed

This is the absolute best photo to follow that last post. Don’t worry: David is way more excited than he looks.

The Fat Trap

This article should be called, “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know.” http://twitter.com/#!/nytimes/status/152069443034423296 I actually didn’t manage to read the whole thing word for word—I had to skim after the first…

Birding

I’ve got a lot of photos to post once I get back home after Christmas of birds—which probably bores you to tears by now. I will try to exercise some…

Ruby Makes Way for Ducklings

The weekend after Thanksgiving, Jenny and Brent headed up to Portsmouth NH for a little Mommy and Daddy Time (i.e., seeing a concert and drinking more than one cocktail), while…

Notes on Tonight’s Dinner

Eating Well ran a little series on “green soups” recently. The idea is that these soups are a good way to get your daily dose (plus, if you ask me)…

Time for a Rest

David is not going to be happy about this, but in honor of his last day of finals in his first semester of college, I dug up this great old…

Blackbird Pie

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Royalston Falls

We consulted the list of waterfalls and decided that Royalston Falls required a visit. The hike down was a little difficult because of all of the leaves and the recent…

Moose Hill

Raise your hand if I’ve taken you to Moose Hill? Ok, everyone put your hands down. Yes, it’s a regular haunt of mine. But if you have been there with…

Rocky Narrows

I had the strangest deja vu as we drove toward Rocky Narrows. I know that I have been to Sherborn before, but I just can’t figure out when or why.…

Stony Brook

Here we go with another Audubon sanctuary. I was really looking forward to this one because the guidebook brags about its boardwalk system, and I have never met a boardwalk…

Prospect Hill

Every once in a while we stop and visit Prospect Hill. There’s not much there. It’s just off I-95 in Waltham. It used to be a little ski resort, and…

Norris Reservation

In our continuing quest to visit all of the Trustees properties we visited Norris Reservation. It’s a rather small property on the South Shore, and I confess to you now…