The Magic Bus

With the blinds down and a grey morning we all slept in after a terrific rainstorm overnight.  Our little patch […]

“Adirondaks”, I told Philippa knowledgeably earlier today, means “Bark Eaters”. The Iroquois used to come to these mountains in the summer and […]

It was blissful to wake in almost complete silence this morning. No yelling kids, no engines, no cars, no people […]

This is more like it. Just down a wooded slope from our campsite is a small lake surrounded by forest […]

Its cool and dark outside and the silence is broken only by the echoes of children up too late, and […]

The day began bright and clear and we had breakfast outside again – wonderful. Tom noticed that standards have been […]

Tom decreed scrambled eggs, baked beans and no toast this morning. So, like the obedient serf that I am, I […]

Thunder is rolling around outside and rain is spattering on the roof. The camp chairs are outside getting wet, but […]

Ours was a room with a view this morning. The sun was glinting on the water and filtering through the […]