Stone Hill Homestead

“What do the fairies use fairy dust for anyway?” I asked the Night Gardener the other night. “It is used to dust anything about to ripen. All summer the fairies add color and sweetness to the fruits and vegetables. Stuff can ripen without but not as well or quickly. Sometimes…

Having the house for sale this summer has me counting the lasts. Noticing things and taking notes on how I did things and if I’d do it that way again. People should see my house in the golden hour. Or dusk. Anyway, interested parties trickle through. It’s beautiful but still…

The garden people are not near as disgruntled by the smoke from the northern fires as I thought they would be. They have other problems. The fairies are all in a flutter. Only, flutter, they cannot. It seems that not only is there an upcoming ban on the use of…

I did not find him in the barn tonight, but on the cat! “Sir Timothy at your service!” he called out to me. I was startled again to see a mouse, in clothing and talking. But this time there was the cat riding thing going on too. I took this…

When I was a teenager I took a course in writing children’s literature. I’ve also collected children’s literature, especially in my teens and as a young mom. Life moved on for me and I kind of lost track of that part of my life. Disconnected somehow. But in my head…

I wish I could do better about chronicling this part of our lives. Better about the pictures. Better about the words. But it all feels rather cautious. I’m not sure how exactly to put into words the way my heart breaks at the idea of moving away from StoneHill. I…

“Get small with God,” Wendy told us years ago. So we did. Us and a tiny group of friends. It was healing, hopeful, and life giving. But while we love each other and there was no nasty parting of the ways, we needed to move from that season of life,…