Went up to the beach in Ct. on a warm December day. Found some mysterious witchy sculptures someone or something made.

Solstice Eve

A great Solstice party at P&J's magical environment, great food, bonfire, fireworks & dance party in the art barn. Speaking of fireworks, artist, musician and now herbal distiller Cornelius brought a jug of his new batch of real absinthe. Of course in true catskillian style it was served over maple syrup, (see earlier post) We tosted to Mr. Poe who was presiding over the event.
*note green fairy over shoulder

most excellent Whirl Giggery

driving southbound again, detour Wilson N.C. seeking barbeque.......

stop car, what's dat?

New whirly gig park, the work of Vollis Simpson, N.C. legend, "visionary artist of junkyard art" who died at 94 in 2013  

farmhouse kitchen tips!

We stopped over to see our pals on Heart's Content Rd. and got some more of that excellent smokey maple syrup. Besides pancake dribbling it's just the thing to add to the chipotle glaze for grilled salmon!  The've got quite the collection of watering cans too.  

more barn music

We went up to Charlotteville to dine in MK's fine mid 19c barn. After a sumptuous late summers meal of salmon cooked on a cedar plank with fresh corn and some golden beet salad, Len Brunson treated us to some fine guitar picking and singing. When he passed his baby Collings guitar to Jeff Wilkinson we were further entertained with some of his original Americana roots inspired songs.  

lawn chairs

Freehand Burdock was driving by in his truck when I was unloading these old lawn chairs I got at a yard sale. He said he could re-webb them in no time. Sure enough a week later he dropped them off. Looking like new with a bit of Ho Jo's revival look, he said he got 4 packs of Frost King webbing at the local hardware store and was able to re use some of the original orange and nifty robins egg blue tweedy strips.  Not bad for  a couple of  lightweight chairs that had been deep underwater in the last big flood and who knows what else in their 50 odd years of backyard fun.

some friends up the Huntersland rd have a new addition to the herd

went fishing and caught this beauty. fried it up with some nettles and mushrooms from the store

Freehand Burdock finally finished the tv cabinet we ordered. seems he had to wait for the chicken coop to be repaired, he used the old roofing tin. he also pulled a hood ornament off a '47 chevy and lit it up.

thanks FB

springtime means RAMPS!

stump castles

Some fellas been busy chopping and stacking these loggy bits

old portraits from Schoharie County

The Plant & Sing festival at Sylvester Manor

We took the run-a-bout out to Shelter Island to the Plant & Sing Fall Festival at Sylvester Manor.

Scyther,  Lau Gillam

 Musician, John Gawler from Maine

 Steve & Bennett

Edith Gawler & Brian Dolphin

Freehand Burdock Wall Climbing Tractor Nightlight

We went over to Freehand Burdock's to pick up the nightlight he was building us for Joe Haske's birthday present. He was in his workshop down by the creek putting the finishing touches on it.

He really went all out using twin Motorola Mighty Midget dry electrolytic capacitors he pulled out of a 1965 Zenith B&W TV as well as a photovoltic "on at dusk off at dawn" system. It was topped off with a really nice  Whitall Tatum telegraph pole insulator covering a ruby red 7.5 watt bulb. He had it wired up  with a nice length of #18 gauge Westinghouse waffle iron cord with a snakey blue black braid.

Geez will he be surprised!

the end of the road in the world's oldest forest

portraits of the world famous GILBOA FOSSILS

An international research team has found evidence of the Earth's earliest forest trees, dating back 385 million years. Upright stumps of fossilized trees were uncovered after a flash flood in Gilboa, upstate New York, more than a century ago. However, until 2007, the crowns of the trees and overall morphology were unknown. These  have helped to determine that Eospermatopteris belongs to the Cladoxylopsida class, which were big vascular plants with spectacular morphology for their time. One reason scientists are so fascinated by these trees is that they were part of "afforestation," the original greening of the earth. That process had a major impact on the planet's climate, carbon cycling and, ultimately, what kinds of animals evolved in these ecosystems.

Dr Berry, of Cardiff's School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, said: "This was also a significant moment in the history of the planet. 

real nice use of paint trim color

artist Butch Anthony

we're driving the tractor over to see Butch Anthony in Seale Alabama
Museum Of Wonder

Abraham Smith reading from his new poetry book "Hank"

one of our favorite apocabilly bands

been gone, now back

Hey friends, found the camera and took some new photos

big pink moon the other night
but windy for spring.

hope we get some rain!

mysterious handmade buildings

Here's some chicken shacks and other handmade buildings we found at an old place near Berne

Stephen Ellwood's place in Cornwallville

NOT RETRO!

just to be clear the whole idea is to move forward into the future cobbling together something new 

not quite free ranging chickens

interesting reuse of large plastic tubs for chicken houses,

not sure about that one

Freegift Patchin's rural delivery urban recovery ratrod

the full sturgeon moon brought out a fine gathering of farmers, artists and culinary thinkers down in southern Schoharie Cty for a big potluck at the CrankyFarm

we brought a big pot of Bush's beans shopped locally doctored up with peppers from the tire planter and a heavy dose of chipoltle powder and a bit of orange peel. don't forget a little honey and nettle vinegar

 

time to break out the sunflower plates

roadside garden

a very nice use of saw'd in two beer kegs guarded by a gaggle of gnomes down the road in Conesville

we took the ratrod into town and hit the thriftbarn, found lobster pants and more