Maria and I are going to Brooklyn for a quick visit to see my daughter Emma and her partner Jay Jaffe, both sportswriters in New York City. Not much time, but hope to walk about Brooklyn and take some photos. Maybe see a movie, hang out with Em in her apartment. I think Brooklyn is one of those places I could live happily with Maria, but I find I can’t really live any longer out of the natural world or away from animals I very much love Cambridge, N.Y., our new town. We see plays at Hubbard Hall, visit Connie Brooks in  her wonderful bookstore, get great salmon burgers at the Round House Cafe and yet still live in the country. We signed up to see three plays at the Williamstown, Mass. Theater, not far from us.

Before I go tomorrow I will blog, put up a question on Facebook for the Fromm Family Food new pork and peas dog food giveway (a 26lb bag to one of the repliers to a topic going up in the morning). I’ll  put it up on the blog also. I got some chicken treats from My Pet Chicken to promote healthy egg-laying – works and pumpkin seeds. Our rotational grazing is going well. We are sealing off parts of the pasture for two-week stretches and letting the grass go. Got a bit of rain, need more. I got a ton of nice mail today about my photography and Farm Dream columns, thanks. I’ll take E.B. White with me for inspiration. Reading a bunch of good novels I will review next week. Got more entries from Florence Walrath’s journal coming.

I do feel something different is happening with my photography, I am getting a lot of response to it, I’m not sure what is different, but I do sense something going on. I am saving up for a new camera, mine is getting wobbly.