Every day starts with water. No, I don’t mean that kind of water. I’m thinking of the first glass of water I drink, and the water I fill the kettle with for my first pot of tea. (I could be content with locally grown food, I think, except that I would still have to have [...]

Second day of spring garden clean-up. I found this a surprising activity when I moved to New England: raking in the springtime? But now I am an old-timer and know that the tide of winter recedes here slowly and leaving much debris behind. Branches and leaves, mostly, but also clumps of sod, thrown up by [...]

Thai edition

Originally uploaded by KarenChristensen.

This is an inside spread of the Thai edition: what a gorgeous, curvy
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Only minutes after my last post, it started snowing. But it’s warmed up now and there really is a feeling of spring in the air, shoots coming up, and even a patch of winter aconite under the trees at the back of the garden. I’m experimenting with photo systems, and herewith testing one of the [...]

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.