I love Pysanky! This ancient Slavic art was mostly popularized in Ukraine, but I hear from people with roots in Croatia, Poland, Slovakia, etc about their grandmother's doing this craft. This year I was very fortunate to offer this amazing activity in four different settings, including our farm, Talent Maker City, Artemisia Institute and Siskiyou Middle school elective class. Many participants were learning about Pysanky for the first time and I am always impressed that finis

During several years of us living in Southern Oregon, this year presented the shortest winter season so far. We still had snow, luckily, but just for a few short (too short) days. The snowfall was so heavy that overnight we woke up to this Winter wonderland! And immediately realized that we need to clean the road! One of the great ways to do it - is to make a snowman! Or an igloo ;) Or invite everyone to take a shovel! Or use the machinery! Phewww, the road will soon be clear

One of our new endeavors is creative use of the local resources. As we posted recently, Madrone is an amazing treasure that we are blessed to have on the land. Madrone wood is one of the respected beauties in the woodworking world, as well as a great hardwood that gets even better with age! Those lamps are practical and decorative at the same time. They are build with the wood sourced at the farm land, caringly varnished with natural beeswax and oils to bring light and beauty

We got a bit of snow! The forecast for the last night was showing snowflakes falling all night! I checked in the early morning coming out to drive kids to school and that's what I saw: Not much. Hopefully more snow is coming our way! Surrounding hills are beautiful: And this last picture is the view of the hills where our farm is located: Not the one up front. Unless you know exactly how to spot it, you can barely see it, it's hiding in the trees on the hillside! But still wi