With love, from Nashville...

Happy New Year's Eve from Hatch Show Print, one of the oldest working letterpress print shops in the country. We are here in Nashville for a show (Old Crow Medicine Show) and Chris is working on a little project with Hatch. I got a chance to walk around with my little camera phone. Very cool place. Enjoy, and have a safe and happy celebration tonight.

Looking back

 I've been spending a lot of time lately looking ahead to the new year. But I'm a Libra. I like to balance my yin with my yang, my up with my down. So I thought that in these last few days of 2010 I would also take a look back at my family's year, photographically.

Winter 2010 
January

Bela's 5th birthday

February

Stir crazy

Leslie and I learn to spin wool

SPRING 2010
March

I put the girls to work in the kitchen, making dinner.

The ice on the lagoon melts. The geese are hungry.

 April

Easter...

...eggs.

Amy and Matt get married.

We get to see our Portland cousins.

May

We visit Wandawega

May is the best month to be naked.

We get our garden ready

We visit baby lambs.

and watch baby birds hatch.

We fed goats in the Smoky Mountains

Oh Appalachia

We met Smoky Mountain pigs

And made new friends

Summer 2010
June

We pick blueberries with Grandma Paula.

We head back to Wandawega

 

 

We eat ice cream, even though June was chilly.

July 

We enjoy the beach

make gross amounts of jam

take in the sights at the Renaissance Faire

Set personal records

Spend 20 hours on Amtrak, NYC bound

Make a trip to Coney Island

  August

Wear the bleep out of the kids

re-visit Wandawega, again. And again.

AUTUMN
September

We harvest our garden.

We make fresh grape juice

We reap the benefits of our farm share

My baby starts school.

October

We celebrate my bday by camping

We warm our toes by the fire, our bellies by the oatmeal

More half marathons

We celebrate Halloween, Wizard of Oz style

November

December