by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Nov 29, 2023 | About Us, Blog
The last day of harvest is bittersweet. Like the native vine with striking orange berries, it is crusty and brilliant all at the same time. Susanne heading to the combine on the last day of harvest. We finished combining corn last Friday afternoon. In the morning,...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Nov 21, 2023 | About Us, About Us, Blog
It took 9 seconds to raise a cupola. I had worried for weeks, months, maybe years. It had taken nine years to arrive at that moment in 2012: the day when the cupola would be placed back on the top of our octagon barn. The Original Cupola The original cupola blew off...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Nov 10, 2023 | About Us
Moon Flowers Someday soon, all the men who walked on the moon will be dead. On a summer night, the orange-coloured sphere rises above the southeastern horizon, Its midnight trajectory guided by the pinpoints of Saturn and Jupiter. In its full phase, the moon...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Nov 6, 2023 | About Us, Barn Quilts
Hanging On Until The Last Moment November 1st showed us that winter is lurking behind every weather forecast. We awoke to a skiff of snow on the fields, breaking the spell that the warm afternoons of fall had cast over Southwestern Ontario. The winds and rain...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Nov 6, 2023 | Cycling Back Roads, Local Things to Do
I live and work in a border world: that slice of land at the extremities of two municipalities that is too far from the convenient centre of either county to concern the core administration and residents. If you have ever lived near a border, you know that sometimes...
