cottage life

2 min read 2023-01-01 23:54:00

New Year Return

The first day of a shiny New Year seems as good a time as any to crank this old blog back to some kind of wheezing life. The Old Year was a difficult

4 min read 2022-10-26 02:00:00

I’ve said it before: Forests are therapy. So, here are pictures that might please eyes and ease minds. I’ve taken the camera out into

4 min read 2022-10-26 02:00:00

I’ve said it before: Forests are therapy. So, here are pictures that might please eyes and ease minds. I’ve taken the camera out into

2 min read 2022-05-28 00:09:49

By Caitlin Kelly If you grew up in a place you loved, and have since moved (far) away, the landscape is an indelible part of your history. It is

1 min read 2022-05-24 01:18:00

My dear little bedroom, where I spend so much time working and resting, has been Spring cleaned and tidied. This is my sanctuary, my safe place,

1 min read 2022-05-07 01:45:00

Dusting off the dear old blog and decorating it with some pretty hedgerow flowers. I have completely lost track of time, and can’t believe I

2 min read 2021-11-30 03:00:00

Out on a walk with Lauren, we stopped in a park and I noticed she was holding an evergreen branch with one hand, stroking it with the other.

1 min read 2021-08-25 02:00:00

Recently I’ve had the joy and privilege of time spent walking in the Pacific Northwest forest, on a small island where we engage in Cottage Life..

1 min read 2021-07-30 02:00:00

Wow, the last Cottage Life piece was in 2019, suggesting there was no such thing in 2020. And, what with Covid, there was less. While this story

2 min read 2021-04-19 00:17:00

This weekend I have been working in the garden during the warm afternoons. It has become rather a jungle and I cannot remember the last time I sat

7 min read 2020-10-09 02:42:17

Even though the weather forecast for our early autumn cottage holiday weekend looked comically grim, there wasn’t a thought in my mind to cancel.

2 min read 2019-09-09 02:00:00

Our probably-last Cottage-Life weekend of 2019 featured cetacean encounters and rodent rage. But I didn’t manage to photograph any of that, so

4 min read 2019-07-11 20:41:39

The best thing Canadians do is flock to the cottage for any and every weekend they can in the summers. If you’re lucky, you’ve already got a

5 min read 2019-07-01 02:00:00

What with our jobs and our kids, Cottage Life time has been tough in recent years. But we still believe in the place and the project enough to put

5 min read 2019-04-18 13:36:50

Bugs Crocker’s magic hand/Facebook The hills were alive with the sound of electricity for young Bugs Crocker in the Front Range Chugach Mountains