The warmer days seem to have lifted the energy in the hills, and our creative places are absorbing it from the world around them — and this weekend, events are flying.
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Candidly we need to cultivate our gardens … — #Berkshireweekend
The strawberry plants are small enough to hold in a palm, but some of them have blossoms forming. I’m cupping them in my hands and pressing them gently into the earth.
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Fresh cheese and sourdough: Farmers markets and plant sales — #Berkshireweekend
And suddenly it’s May. We feel the change coming for weeks, fizzing in catkins and lapping up the lower slopes — and then the sun comes out and the maples open their leaves, and the world turns green again.
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You’re going to meet some gentle people there — #Berkshireweekend
Naumkeag’s annual spring festival is far enough along that the daffodils are wide open and just starting to give ground, and the tulips are all in full blow.
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Columbine and jazz: Warm days are coming — #berkshireweekend
The splash of red is vivid and unexpected — wild columbine. I wouldn’t have looked for them this early, or at this bend in the trail, with the white trillium growing thickly up the slope.
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Questing for poets on spring nights — #Berkshireweekend
Why is April called poetry month? Why now, in a precarious early spring? Ross Gay and Robert Hass remind me that poetry is physical. Immediate. Close as skin or rain on birchbark.
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Spring wildflowers and baby animals emerge — #Berkshireweekend
The bloodroot are back. I just went down to one of the closest places I know to look for them, out on the trail along the western bank of the Hoosic River.
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Mass MoCA and Flamenco tap into living rhythm — #Berkshireweekend
‘The Eve of the Future’ … I was walking through Mass MoCA’s new spring shows, and the name of one of Carrie Schneider’s photographs caught my eye.
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Talking face to face in the first days of spring — #Berkshireweekend
An almond croissant and coffee on a sunny morning — my first signs of spring are coming to me at Patisserie Lenox, talking with an old friend. She’s my first boss and my first editor …
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Close encounters with Irish slides — #Berkshireweekend
Fiddler Matt Cranitch from County Cork, accordionist Dónal Murphy from Limerick and guitarist and vocalist Tommy O’Sullivan from County Kerry perform live as Sliabh Notes.
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