I have seen some incredible photos taken during what they call “the blue hour.” I decided to sneak out early one morning this week and see what I could find. A few of the best for this week’s Wordless Wednesday.  

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It’s a sort-of wordless Wednesday today. As Bob Cratchit said in Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol,” we’ve been making rather merry. I thought I’d share some photo highlights. We partnered with our local school district to put on a benefit concert for the Find a Voice Fund, established in our daughter Elli’s memory. A barbershop…

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I am a great starter. I love the excitement, the energy, the optimism of starting something new. I dive in with gusto, make super-human progress for the first few days, and then somewhere in the guts of the project, get bogged down, and lay it aside. That’s when I lose steam. What was supposed to…

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I harvested this basil Thursday evening. It looks more like oregano. Trust me – it smells like basil, it purees into beautiful pesto, and tastes fabulous. But it’s puny. Anyone know what might be wrong with it?

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It’s fall here. Sort of. We’ve had a very dry summer, followed by more dry. Indian summer. The grass is dead, except for the weeds And the crazy watering-people’s lawns. We aren’t crazy. We don’t water our grass with drinking water. Do you ever think about that? We shower in drinking water. We wash our…

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