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A Very Busy Two Weeks or so...

For some strange reason, my computer and my camera have decided they can see one another again and I have pictures to go with a post. Not as many as I would like...say, for example, shots from CNN's "Decision Desk" for the midterm depression...er...I mean election coverage.

I put up about a dozen pints of jalapeno jelly and then took off for the city on the train...the Hudson River in all it's autumnal raiment. Had dinner with Bev and Robert (who worked the election with me) and Ken Monday night at Cafe Loup, which was lovely as always. Spent two nights in a chic little hotel right at Lincoln Center and headed back home on the 

train Wednesday morning (reading Angela Miller's Hay Fever all the way -- she's the proprietrix of Consider Bardwell Farm here. I recommend the book. It was fun to read about Granville and Pawlet and Roy Egg and the West Pawlet Fish and Game Club.) Which reminds me...I need to submit my invoice so I can get paid (CNN is notoriously slow in payment...I probably won't get paid till January!)

Got home and hit the ground running with two days to pull the second First Friday at the Pember together. Had a nice break from the Post-Star which ran a front page of the Arts section story on Tuesday about one of the artists we featured. The wooden bowls (over on the left there) were a big hit...turned by our neighbor Tony Mesaric, using local woods.

Had another 80+ people turn up (in a village of 2,000+ people, that's not bad), which was what we had hoped for. Battenkill Creamery (by the way, they were just named "Best Milk in the State of New York") served ice cream sundaes and a delightful time was had by all. 

And last night...we went to the rodeo...YEE HAW! [Pretty horse...prettier cowboy]

 

 

Lights in An Early Summer Sky

Friday night, we watched Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland [Burton is a genius, no?] and after the movie, walked out into the yard and garden that was lightly bathed in half moonlight...sprinkled with several thousand fireflies [Lampyridae]...it was not unlike walking back into one of the set pieces of Burton's Wonderland.

Then, last night, we took two folding chairs and Brewster to the top of the hill, along the road, looking back into Granville...where we watched the fireworks for the Fireman's Fair, which had been going on at the fairgrounds all weekend while yet more fireflies continued their twinkling visual obligato in the field around us.

Who says living in the country isn't exciting?

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