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A good lie in.  A lazy cuppa obtained from your favorite bearded coffee purveyor. Now lace up your boots and ramble into the countryside. Do stop for a slice of lemon meringue pie… Continue reading →

SURPRISE!

I guess I thought I’d be a little more jaded by my fifth Western Hemisphere autumn, but it shocks me still – the way the colour jumps out of the trees and yells… Continue reading →

let’s go foraging {norway.2}

See this, children? This is what fishing for your supper looks like.  Then we pulled on gumboots to comb the mossy marsh below the cottage for cloudberries. Our lovely host, Helle, smushed them into… Continue reading →

of the things they saw in Norway, pt. 0

In the summer of oh-twelve, two intrepid kids headed due North. North, they found out, looks like this: And this: And thankfully, like this too:  It’s all coming up! I’m wading through pictures… Continue reading →