by Sally | Mar 8, 2022 | On My Mind, Sally Buffington |
So what’s on the dessert menu? Cheesecake, chocolate mousse cake. . . well, I can have those any time . . . Affogato? What’s that? It says “vanilla ice cream and espresso” . . . Hmmn, that’s a simple combination. Sounds good, why don’t I try it? Aberystwyth, a...
by Sally | Dec 14, 2021 | Holidays, On My Mind, Sally Buffington |
As a child, I used to read this verse on the cover of the family photo album. Now I would add a line: “old places”—and one old place in particular, our Craigville cottage of which I wrote in A Place Like This. Yet we never celebrated Christmas there. All...
by Sally | Nov 22, 2021 | Sally Buffington, Seeing and Photography |
Selecting the photographs for my website refresh, I’ve been looking over images from the past several years. On a first round, the raspberries above joined another food photo of mine: sauteed onions which looked so inviting that I wanted to dip right in and take a...
by Sally | Oct 21, 2021 | Nature and Places, Sally Buffington, San Diego |
Griffin Island, Wellfleet, Cape Cod National Seashore. I had made it to the crest of the dune after a climb in two-steps-forward-one-step-back sand, when whoosh! I was almost blown off my feet. I must have shimmied, but after a few steps down toward the...
by Sally | Aug 26, 2021 | Cape Cod, Nature and Places, Sally Buffington |
When I speak or write of Cape Cod, seldom is it an accident or about a place “where I just happened to be.” To me, the Cape is holy ground, where I “take off my shoes” with reverence. And anything I write or think about Cape Cod, anything that takes place there, any...
by Sally | Jul 20, 2021 | At The Table, Sally Buffington |
In my childhood, blueberries were always a summer fruit. Only a summer fruit. Now I see them in the supermarket every time I go. Oh, if you were lucky, you might go picking in some rural or country location; I never found this as romantic an activity as...
