'borne back ceaselessly into the past...'
2 blasts from the past over the weekend, which I spent in Hudson NY, in Columbia County.
The Great Gatsby is more popular than ever with the big splashy new rendition just coming out this weekend. I caught it upstate, where my date was positive we should go an hour early to get tickets. My experience of upstate movie viewing won out, we arrived on time, and were on of 8 to see it in the matinee time slot on Saturday. I'm a big Fitzgerald fan - I like Gatsby, but his other works are compelling too - especially his self-portrait in the CrackUp. I've been known to explore many a college library's F. Scott Fitzgerald section, meandering quietly in the tall stacks and rows of hardbound books.
Here's a Hudson photo.
Then my friend Shannon McNalley and the Smoke Signals were playing up in Hudson as well - actually, now that I remember it, she was the reason I planned the weekend up there. I met her when she was graduating from F&M in Lancaster PA, where I'm from. Any way, she has spent the last 20 yrs playing music, from one club, bar, arena to another. It's an impressive display of commitment and she's good enough to become a overnight star one day. Actually amazing to be that well-respected in your industry, know the right people, say the right thing and still barely make a living at it.
Early Bird Cookery - Spring Announcement.
Message from my Friend Amy, who filled a much-needed market niche with her cooking and catering.
Happy Spring!
Early Bird is back in the kitchen, at Foodstock this weekend and planning our first farm-to-table dinner for May 25th.
Early Bird will kick-off the 2013 season at Foodstock, WJFF's fabulous food & wine event. It takes place this Saturday May 11th from 11:00 until 4:00pm at the Villa Roma in Jeffersonville, NY. We will be offering prepared meals to-go. Early Bird uses real food sourced from local farms to create mouth watering meals. Let us get dinner on the table!
If you miss us here, we will be offering packaged / prepared foods all summer at the Sunday Callicoon Farmers Market or sign-up for a weekly Monday delivery right to your door.
Our first farm-to-table dinner will be a WJFF Fundraiser and will be held on Saturday, May 25th. Dinners will be held the last Saturday of every month through October. Please call or email for more information and menus.
Memorial Day Menu
- Fava bean, spring pea, fried almonds, wild
mushrooms & parmesan : farmers market greens.
- Housemade ricotta cavatelli w/asparagus & spring
pea shoots. (lardons optional)
- Buttermilk roasted chicken, fiddleheads,
creamy polenta, chives
- Lemon tart, smokey rhubarb jam
Early Bird wishes all our lovely Mother's a happy Mother's Day!
www.earlybirdcookery.com
Pics speak a 1000 words
New home site in Roxbury NY, with a hay bale for a desk.
Abe Lincoln flask I found in Rhinebeck NY.
4 1/2 yr old chest/book-keeping art.
5 boro 45 mile bike ride this weekend. Looks like another fantastic weekend of weather.
Loft Renovation - Saugerties NY
So, a multigenerational furniture business which owns, and has owned, a large corner building where they have hawked their wares for decades has collaborated with us on a design of the rear living loft portion of the block long building. Interestingly, many generations of this family have at one time or another lived in this 1500 sq ft 2nd floor loft. Now, we are redoing it, Catskill Farms style - a little old, a little new and lot of pizazz.
I keep a little apartment in Saugerties, right around the corner. A little love nest, you may say (though to be honest, it hasn't seen any female callers except for cleaning company lady).
Its a super cool and historic building.
Pretty old school interior that has seen lots of kids raised and general good-natured overcrowding and limited bathroom quarrels.
The blues...
Super good looking mint green drop ceiling and wall paper.
We're keeping that beadboard door.
I liked this yellow print long hallway - it caught a lot of sun and was a good color for it. Alas, by the time you read this it will be no more.
The living room.
Hot red bedroom.
The Kids room.
Should be fun - and of course like every renovation unexpected things happen - but not usually so quick - we started demo and the sheetrock on the interior walls was partially made of concrete, for chrissakes.
