Bowles Family Blog

  A beautiful new moon hanging over the lake to the west of our cabin.  A cloudy night, so we felt lucky to see the moon at all.  But, if...

Here are several more pictures of the wooden boat for sale on Craigslist.  Thank you for looking.    

UPDATE - June 20: The deep red peonies always bloom later than the others.  But these, too, are especially vibrant this year. A ...

  For inquiring minds: Do you say two Trillium, Or two Trilliae? Haiku from the cabin, June 2013

Some of my earliest memories are of going on hunting trips in the woods near Liberty, MO with my grandfather (Robert Earl "Dad"...

Major spring events in New England include listening for Peepers (tree frogs), seeing buds on the maple trees, and the emergence of Fiddle...

One of the projects on my list has been to walk our property lines and find the survey stakes.  I had marked them when we first built the...

  A New Year's tradition from Chet's family: Black-eyed peas, greens, and cornbread for health, wealth, and happiness in the ...

I see these things fairly regularly in our woods--they are called Witches' Broom.  Often on oak or birch trees (we have lots of both), t...

Branches and debris are always coming down in the woods--it's a rather constant clean-up task.  However, we are still dealing with the a...