Author Archives: epsomdave

Let us admit: if we once start thinking no one can guarantee where we shall come out, except that many objects, ends and institutions are doomed.  Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no … Continue reading →

Wendall Berry’s speech for the Jefferson Lectures.  Berry was selected for this honor by the National Endowment for the Humanities. http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/wendell-e-berry-lecture

It’s safe and comfy here… why do you ask?

          I picked this up off a facebook post…

        You will need to ask Alice and Fiona about the origin of the names.

My Mom collects buttons. My Grandmother collected buttons. Here’s the first McClary Hill Farm collectible button. Molds tomorrow, buttons sometime soon. Errr… the collectible part is the moon, not the cow, however cute she might be.  

Two years ago I saved some true potato seed from my potato patch. These seeds come from the little berries that a potato plant will produce after flowering. Last spring I planted them in the greenhouse and they were promptly … Continue reading →

The Cleaning A simple little recording.    

Two faint ruts Brown dirt in a gray forest; Grass has grown And trees crowd in But still the road remains.   Forgotten stone walls Still guarding, too old to realize The pastures they marked Are gone.   The crack … Continue reading →