The art of the letterpress

Thursday, December 17th, 2009 Posted in Art, Craft, In print/published | No Comments »

Presses stop me. When I worked at a newspaper, on breaks I used to go down to the press room and watch the huge rolls whir through. My favorite is the sights and sounds of letterpressing - the hands-on ...

Mississippi morning

Monday, December 14th, 2009 Posted in Travel | No Comments »

Last week in Mississippi, there was frost in Oxford two mornings in row. On a drive south and east of town, most of the fields were well-picked, with bits of cotton edging the roads where truckloads of the tufts must ...

Farm fog

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 Posted in Maine days | 1 Comment »

On that November Maine trip, I played with an old plastic Diana camera. Here are two favorites - of belted cows and a barn on State Route 46, and of the foggy harbor between Bucksport and Prospect. That's the mid-1800s ...

Sauerkraut and Belon

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 Posted in Food, Maine days, Oysters, Travel | No Comments »

On a November drive on the Maine coast north of Portland, we stopped in at Morse's Sauerkraut for a quart of their brined cabbage. I love the sour crunch, hot or cold. We met one of the owners and learned ...