Oh Dear, I meant to start this on the Solstice in December of 2024. I got as far as the heading (the first half of the heading now) and dropped the ball. I did have a lot going on this month, but now I'm not letting it go any further. So much has gone down since I last posted on August 3, 2024.
For one, I have had quite a few poems curated at various journals, and I have also had some acceptances that are coming in 2025. so I am very psyched. Here's a link to a listing of some of my online publications:
https://linktr.ee/cb99videos This listing is always on my bio at my instagram: https://instagram.com/cb99videos (where, if you follow me, you might see my postings of images more frequenly than on this blog, of late).
but if you don't want to go to the listings on linktree, Here are a few links for you.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DBkAhIlPXgQ/ (This is a haibun inspired by our camping trip in the van to the Potomac River last spring).
https://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/table-of-contents-20-3/haibun-20-3/carla-schwartz-musing-weather/ This is a haibun about writing poems
https://www.spankthecarp.com/issue84_schwartz.html and this is a love poem both about writing and about geometry
Verse-Virtual Online, "The Mistake of Cutting Down" and "The Mesh of Root" https://www.verse-virtual.org/2025/January/schwartz-carla-2025-january.html
I'll stop there for now.
So what have we been up to since last August? Well we have had a few van trips here and there, out to hear live music and to see friends, and we spent some nice times on Lake Winnipesaukee, and we finally closed up the camp in November. The lake level was so low at that time that we had to winch our houseboat off the sand from the dock in order to move the boat off the island. That was a challenge.
Over the Christmas holiday we traveled by van to visit with our sisters and otherwise have been cycling, hiking, and until close to mid-November, swimming outdoors. There hasn't been any skiable snow around here yet, but we did go ice-skating in Lincoln and Concord last week.
So, here's our life in photos for the last 4 months...As always it's lovely to hear from you. Carla
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This first picture is from one of our van trips, camping at Dolly Copp national forest in NH. We went there between going to hear music in Chicorua at the Farmstand B&B Feel the Barn Series (Christ Smither) and going out to Jackson to hear some music. I'll post the rest of the photos from that trip beneath that one:
Houseboat Tours
Some Island Shots
Island Harvest
Our van Trip to the Highland Center (AMC) to hear live music surrounded by Mountains
Breakfast the Next Morning at the Mount Washington Hotel
Riding the Presidential Bike Trail up to Echo Lake/Franconia State Park and back down to the Flume via the Basin
Camping at Three-Mile Island Camp Lake Winnipesaukee
Having a Tree cut down on the island
Hiking from Dolly Copp National Forest Campground
Exploring Gorham, NH, where the supposed best Northern Italian Restaurant
in New Hampshire is located
On the Way Back Home to Bear Island
The Marina at night
Mushrooming on AMC's Three-Mile Island Camp
Lake and Island Photos
New Console Cover!
Island Fauna
Island Garden Produce
Fungi
More Lake Photos
Hiking Red Hill near Meredith
En route to Chicorua for live Music (Mark Erelli)
Hiking near White Lake State Park Tamworth, NH
Back Home on the Island
Camping at Three-Mile Island Camp with the Houseboat
In Carlisle, Chicken of the Woods on our property
Bruce Marshal Band Playing in Shirley
Old Car (Sad Story)
New (used) Car (no learning curve)
Poetry and Scuplture walk and reading Event at the Beals Preserve, Southborough, MA
Back on the Island, waning summer
Hey, get off of my boat
Sophie C USPS Mail Boat at 3-Mile Island Camp
Houseboating
Back on our Island
Cape Cod Trip near Labor Day
On the Lake
Van Road Trip to Stoddard, NH and then to Mount Monadnock
Our First Paw Paw (we grew it in Carlisle, harvested in October)
Bike Touring from Ayer to Nashua
Kevin So in Lincoln, MA
Night Sky Carlisle
Lake Life
Bear Island Walking the Last Day living up on Bear Island
Cooking Green Tomoatoes into Breakfast
Halloween in Westford, MA
Claude built a new shelf for our record albums
Last day on the lake (taking the boat out, see the skid marks where the housboat had beached)
A Few More Lake Photos
Jesse Cook Lexington, MA Nov 15
Chris and Meredith Thompson, Westford, MA 2024
Hiking the Fells
Papa Car and Baby Car by GM
Thanksgiving 2024 on Cape Cod
Thanksgiving 2024 (Turkies)
Pumpkin for my Pies
Pies in the Oven
Walks in New York State, New Palz
West Springfield Connecticut River Path
Ice-Skating W. Concord, MA
Amaryllis 2024
Peach Tree Moving Operation (Scary, to me)
First Day, Today, New Year's Day hike at World's End, Hingham MA
A few random poems in print
