Red Barn, No Windows

"Red Barn, No Windows"

Jennifer R. Bernard

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Louisa May Alcott: November 29, 1832

Happy Birthday Louisa May Alcott

Author of "Little Women" (1868)

November 29, 1832

"Little Women Series"  

Jennifer R. Bernard

Photography by Jennifer

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Louisa May Alcott's Apple Slump

Louisa May Alcott's Apple Slump

6 cups apples, pared, cored, and sliced
1 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup water
1 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
About 1/2 cup milk

Combine apple slices, sugar, cinnamon and water in a saucepan with a tight-fitting lid. Heat to the boiling point.

Sift together flour, salt and baking powder. Stir in enough milk to make a soft dough. Drop dough from a tablespoon onto apple mixture. Cover tightly and cook over low heat for 30 minutes.

Serve warm with New England Nutmeg Sauce or rich cream. This dessert can also be made with fresh or frozen berries. Serves 6.

New England Nutmeg Sauce:
1 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon flour
1 cup boiling water
1 tablespoon butter

Mix together sugar and flour. Stir in boiling water and cook, stirring constantly, until sauce bubbles and thickens slightly. Add 1 tablespoon butter and simmer gently for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in nutmeg. Serve hot.

"A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams." Unknown

"A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams." Author Unknown

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary." Aaron Rose

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary." Aaron Rose

Happy Thanksgiving Day

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." 

Thornton Wilder

"Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were." Author Unknown

"Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were." 

Author Unknown

Afternoon Light in Vermont

Afternoon Light in Vermont

Jennifer R. Bernard

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Red Barn Garden

"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the
landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter.
Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show." 

    Andrew Wyeth

New Hampshire Barn Covered in Bittersweet

New Hampshire Barn 

Covered in Bittersweet.

Jennifer

Jennifer R. Bernard

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"The years teach much which the days never knew" Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The years teach much which the days never knew." 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary." Louisa May Alcott

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."

Louisa May Alcott

Jennifer R. Bernard

Photography by Jennifer

"Little Women" series:   Amy at The Orchard House (2010)

"Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson

"Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others." 

Robert Louis Stevenson

Front Door at the home of Rebecca Nurse of Old Salem Village

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time." Betty Smith

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time." Betty Smith

"Little Women" series created by photographer Jennifer R. Bernard

Re Enactment portrait of:  Elizabeth Sewall Alcott  "Beth" from "Little Women" (1868)

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"Someday is not a day of the week" Author Unknown

"Someday is not a day of the week." 

Author Unknown

"A hug is worth a thousand words." Author Unknown

"A hug is worth a thousand words." 

Author Unknown

Louisa May Alcott Home of "Little Women" (1868)

The Orchard House

Concord, Massachusetts

Home of Louisa May Alcott and the Alcott family from 1858 to 1877.

"Little Women" (1868) written in Louisa May Alcott's upstairs bedroom in this home.

Jennifer R. Bernard

Photography by Jennifer

http://www.Photography-by-Jennifer.com

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." William Shakespeare

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." 

William Shakespeare

The Minute Man - Daniel Chester French

The Minute Man - Daniel Chester French

"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you." 

Author unknown

"It is not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." Thoreau

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."  

Henry David Thoreau

When a Door Closes Another Door Opens

When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

Alexander Graham Bell(1847 - 1922)

Theory of the Universe

"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - 

namely to You."

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1892

“Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else”

“Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else”

Unknown

Honor the Past. Live the Present. Create the Future.

   Honor the past.  Live in the present. Create the future.

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away”

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away”

Unknown

Robert Frost - Stone House Vermont

Robert Frost's Stone House:  Shaftsbury, Vermont  (1920-1929)

A famous poem written while residing at the Stone House  in 1922.

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know. 

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year. 

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound's the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake. 

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep. 

Robert Frost (1922)

November Bench

"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn."
  Elizabeth Lawrence

My November Guest: Robert Frost "A Boys Will" (1915)

My November Guest My Sorrow, when she's here with me, Thinks these dark days of autumn rain Are beautiful as days can be; She loves the bare, the withered tree; She walked the sodden pasture lane. Her pleasure will not let me stay. She talks and I am fain to list: She's glad the birds are gone away, She's glad her simple worsted gray Is silver now with clinging mist. The desolate, deserted trees, The faded earth, the heavy sky, The beauties she so truly sees, She thinks I have no eye for these, And vexes me for reason why. Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow, But it were vain to tell her so, And they are better for her praise. Robert Frost