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A Visit to the Museum

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on December 23, 2021| 2 Comments »

I walked over to the museum the other day, mainly to see the artwork of the late Loring Coleman, a guy in love with ruined New England farmhouses and crumbling barns. He knew how to bring out the beauty and significance of these disappearing landmarks.

The museum’s annual feature called Family Trees also caught my attention. That’s a community effort in which local families and organizations decorate trees or wreaths with the theme of a beloved storybook.

The Garden Club, for example, did a tree this year on a flower-themed picture book, and the Council on Aging made tiny mittens for those famous little kittens who lost theirs. (Lots of skilled knitters at the Council on Aging!) Check out the covers of all the delightful books here.

PS. I’m going to add a beautiful barn painting at the end of this post. It’s by a former neighbor, Ben Cummings, and was brought to my attention by his son, Earle, and his daughter, Caroline. Like many of the buildings featured in the Coleman paintings, these red barns are no more.

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Camping in a Bubble

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 5, 2014| 2 Comments »

The Globe travel section had some fun recently with unusual sleeping structures offered to travelers. This goes beyond accommodations on stilts in the South Seas.

Diane Bair and Pamela Wright report, “Cradled in a ‘human nest’ made of twigs and branches, on a hillside above the Pacific Ocean, we drifted off to dreamland to the sounds of barking sea lions and crashing waves, a relaxation mix tape made by Mother Nature herself.

“This is camping? Nope. It’s a kind of ‘glamping,’ a.k.a. glamorous camping. While the human nest isn’t wildly luxurious, it’s certainly unique, one of the hallmarks of the glamping experience. ‘Yurts, treehouses, domes, eco-pods, barns, bell tents, cabins, and safari tents — whatever you choose, it’s going to be original,’ says Katie Stearns of Glamping Hub, an online site with 1,200 listings. In addition, ‘you have an incredibly unique access to nature,’ Stearns says.”

Click here to see photos of an Oregon tree-house for grownups, glass igloos in Finland, and lots of other imaginative places to bed down around the world.

Photo: Boston Globe
“Dreamcatcher” bubble, part of a colony of five bubbles set in a Provencal pine forest near Marseille

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