"It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong." -John Cheever On its way to being a blistering day out on the lake, with the onset of the heat wave we've been promised for the week leading up to America's 250th. I've taken that shot so many times over, what, three years now? I figured including Peg's cactus pot in the foreground would add a little conversation to the shot. We switched from strawberries to succulents this year because we're away

"One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time." -Hermann Hesse Why was there no post this morning? Oh yeah--I was flying back from Perry to KELM. An early departure gives the best chance of avoiding thunderstorms in late June, so early it was. A lovely flight at 15,000 feet up the east coast. Here are a couple shots from the trip. No clue why the shot out the window was so blurry. Last night before I left the farm, a

"But when from a longdistant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structur

"Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity, or neglect." — Captain A.G. Lamplugh Leaving Corning to go to the airport and fly home, and this is what's draped between me and my first stop in Greensboro, North Carolina. Not the worst I've seen, but not great. And there's icing over Pennsylvania, one day into official summer. I'd rather forgo this exercise, stay here and