Author: Daphne Cybele Van Schaick

Writer, compulsive reader, apple pie baker, complex cable knitter. Life with family plus two dogs, a stray cat, chickens, weeds, and bees.

Spring Comes in… on Little Bird Feet

On By Daphne Cybele Van SchaickIn The Birds & the Bees12 Comments
April snowdrops in Vermont
April snowdrops in Vermont

Spring is coming on a bit faster now, more visible and seemingly at a less glacial pace.  We have snow drops blooming under a plum tree and bits of moss greening up between stretches of dry leaves in the woods. Continue reading “Spring Comes in… on Little Bird Feet” →

Chickens and Candy Eggs

On By Daphne Cybele Van SchaickIn The Birds & the Bees9 Comments
3-plus week old barred rock hens inside indoor brooder
3-plus week old barred rock hens. I think the one on the right is Minerva or Polly… but suggestions are welcome!

The barred rock chicks have passed the three-week mark.  I write these posts on the far side of each week (which is to say, we are living and writing in the fourth week, having survived the third…). Continue reading “Chickens and Candy Eggs” →