Summer Garden Photos

Late Summer in the Garden

"This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first
stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who
droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders."
- Sarah Orne Jewett, The Courting of Sister Wisby, 1887

The red tomatoes are begging to be canned. We have many green ones also. Patricia is in the kitchen now putting up pesto to delight our senses in the winter months to come. October is the season, but the temperature is that of a late summer day. I'll bake bread in the coolness of the morning now and dream in the evening of wool to spin and knit into warm fuzzy things.

Here are some photos of summer in our garden. Malia is there now putting it to bed and preparing it for the winter months to come.

Yesterday Paul, Patricia, and Malia planted fall garlic. Wednesday Patricia planted tulip bulbs. We have life to look forward to when winter comes.

Denise

The Community of Friends

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Paul, Patricia, and friends of Sunpoint Sanctuary












Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunpoint Sanctuary is located in Derry, NH, on Old Chester Rd. The farm is at 33 Old Chester Rd, and was once the Grey Rock Farm. The Doolittle family has owned and lovingly cared for the farm for generations. Edith and Albert Doolittle cared for the land, for the village of Derry, and for all the souls of this earth in such a way that their spirit of love and gentleness is legend.

Last year they left this earth, Albert first, then Edith, after living to their 90's. Their hope was that the farm would become a sanctuary, a place where the earth and all its beings would be revered.

In that spirit, the sons of Edith and Albert, Paul, David, and Bob, hope that the land will pass on to those who wish to see their hope become reality.

Malia, Paul, Patricia, and I decided in 2007 to purchase a home together just up the road from the farm. We have become a community of friends.

And what a gift that has been. As we struggle in these difficult economic times to find funding for the Sanctuary, we also struggle to develop and foster our own and one another's spiritual growth and to lessen our footprint on the planet.

Currently we continue to meet each morning at 7 a.m. before we go off to our daily chores. We're working our way through A NEW EARTH by Eckhart Tolle, as I have mentioned before.

The beauty of the relationships we have formed has truly been beyond belief.

Denise