If February is a grapefruit (pink and bursting through it’s dull rind), and March is a banana because what else is there? If April is a mango, hopeful, often rotten and disappointing but every so often so rich and bright, and May is just blossoms, promises of fruit. If June is a strawberry, soaked through…
peak
Just this past week, that thing happened that I forget about every year, when the sky is less blue and instead becomes a deep, deep almost-black gray. It makes the trees glow. This is also when people start burning wood in their wood stoves, and so the color combination smells like woodsmoke. This makes me…
summer music
Joey said something last week–that you never know what the summer music will be until the summer’s over. We always end up with summer music, and it’s some cd we actually splurged on at the record store so we could listen to it in the car, or it’s something someone brought over to a party…
the new berkshire list, and blue q, too
(In the interest of full disclosure- this is not a sponsored post. But I have an affiliate relationship with Blue Q because I love them that much. So yes, your purchase supports this site. Thank you!) This is the moment when I get a lot of questions about Great Barrington and the Berkshires. Our population…
catching at the opportunity
Perhaps we just need to relax our ambitions a bit. Sometimes, I feel a little envious of those who live in the city. In the city, no one is on vacation. They sweat it out on the blacktop walking to work in the exaggerated heat, escaping into tall, air-conditioned office buildings. They work all week…
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