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A few photos from one of our favorite spring outings, the Nyack House Tour. It happens every other year. (Past photos here.) Nice view from one home’s upper sitting porch: Mom asked me to photograph this cabinet: A style for […]
We packed Srimp into the stroller and went for a nice walk around town, looking at the homes of people who were kind enough to open them to support this annual fundraiser for The Historical Society of Nyack. Not a […]
We had a fabulous time looking at some of Nyack’s best homes on a tour that was a benefit for the Historical Society. I don’t want to give anything away about which house was what, because some people don’t broadcast […]
I’ve heard tell of the Smokehouse of the Catskills — an old-school, German-style smokehouse and deli in the tradtion of Schaller & Weber — but I’d never visited. When Kristin and I drove past on our way back from Opus […]
The definition of renaissance man: Thomas Jefferson — author of the Declaration of Independence, President of the United States, founder of the University of Virginia. Collector of wines, books and knowledge. A self-taught linguist, architect, inventor and gardener. And as […]
Open Days is an ingenious fundraiser for the Garden Conservancy. You pay $5, which goes toward helping “preserve exceptional American gardens,” and you get to go behind the garden gates of some really fancy, and also very inspiring, private gardens. […]
After our ice skating escapade, we headed downtown for lunch at an old standby, the Union Oyster House.
Nebo had a couple of bikes we could use to check out the island. The sun was trying its hardest to come out, and by the time we were on our way back from our ride, the sky was nearly […]
We only had a few hours in Portsmouth before sunset, but it was plenty of time to take in the brick sidewalks, tall steeples, quaint alleyways and of course, the stunning views of the harbor.
Since leaving baseball, Kelly has started his own building company, Kelly Wunsch Homes. On Friday, we went on a tour of the job site of his latest project. We were hoping to see the concrete slab get poured, but the threat of […]
Whoa! The time has come to say goodbye to the crib. Sure, it was a toddler bed for a while. But we are now graduating out of toddler-dom and into childhood. (Yes, I am weeping.) We got a new memory […]
With these photos, I bring you a rare look at behind the scenes, the inner workings of Sour Cherry Farm. I take you …. dum, dum dum!…. behind the garage! Hunna is loading wood for the log hoop on the […]
After a pretty bad night’s sleep at the Days Inn Roanoke — which Greg nicknamed the Days Inn Islamabad for its crumbling walls and filthy rooms — we headed out early in the morning to get some brekky and check […]
We were introduced to the beauty of Benton’s — a smokehouse not 40 miles from our cabin in Tennessee — by dining out in New York, particularly at Momofuku Ssam Bar and at PDT. We finally had the chance to get […]
Before I get started on this jag of posts from Tennessee and Virginia, a little disclaimer: Y’all realize that I’m about six weeks behind in posting to the blog, right? In other words, please don’t come over to rob the […]
In a mansion in a leafy suburban neighborhood near the Main Line in Philadelphia, there’s a collection of Impressionist and Modern paintings like you’ve never seen in one place before: 181 Renoirs; 169 Cézannes; 46 Picassos; 21 Soutines; 4 Manets, […]
For our first Easter dinner, we enjoyed a lovely ham from Edward’s of Surry, Va. at the home of Peggy and Jim, whom we like to refer to lovingly as Les Gilberts.
Prime Meats is the kind of place a couple of tourists from upstate might find themselves as the first diners at 6:30 p.m. on a Thursday night for dinner. About 20 minutes later, a family from the neighborhood — celebrating […]
John and Phillipe had perfect weather for their annual Labor Day party. We sipped punch, strolled the garden, played scavenger hunts and had an all-around rollicking time. Cheers, Cathy! (And there’s Eamon behind her!)
Thanks Sour Cherry Fans, for hanging in there, even though our postings have become so infrequent. I am trying my darndest to catch up, and today, I did make some progress. Reports from our June trip to Minnesota are now […]
Memorial Day weekend and the peonies are at their prime. The garden is really growing now. Come take a look!
From time to time, we like to let readers in on what’s happening in the Orchards and the Fields. We’ve got a bumper crop this year, I hope. Let’s start with the cherries.
Here’s a convenient and easy place to find the recipes we make on Sour Cherry Farm. If you don’t see any credit or link out, they are my recipes. Otherwise, I give credit where credit is due! Many of these […]
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
