Category: Personal
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Winter at Winterberry Farm
Winter came and went at Winterberry Farm and Dylan and I continued filming Mary’s final year farming there after 25 years. We added a new friend L Clark Tate to the project team as well and hope to finish our documentary this summer. We’re in the wild state of just trying to film everything we…
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Looking Back at Fall
I’ve already forgotten my solstice goal but I can remember that Ezra’s is to go rock climbing so we have 23 days to find a baby-sized boulder for him. This morning’s sun made me nostalgic for warmer days and then looking ahead to winter fun. I don’t feel like I have any sort of “normal”…
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Winterberry Farm Documentary Filming
Dylan and I have been filming a documentary on Winterberry Farm in Belgrade for the last couple of months. We are going to follow Mary and her family in their final year as a farm after twenty years in Belgrade. It’s been great to spend time with Mary, two of her kids, and her lovely…
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A Rainy Trip Down Memory Lane
Emma and I just booked a place up in Lubec for a little later this fall and it sent my mind back to our last visit there: It was pouring almost the entire weekend. Emma was pregnant and we were celebrating our first wedding anniversary. We were all very cold (Dilly included) but did get…
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Fall Pemi Loop Run
This year, I’ve been working my way through the classic longer trail runs on the East Coast. I started with the Art Loeb trail in North Carolina, then the Presidential Traverse in NH, then a big loop around Baxter State Park in my home state of Maine, and finally this week I found a time…
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Sailing Casco Bay
The weather was too nice to not go sailing so Dylan and I took the day off to explore Casco Bay. I also had been looking for a good excuse to fly my drone in that magic area past Peaks and Cushing Islands where you’re allowed to fly without special permission. We were lucky enough…
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Snapshots of Fatherhood
Four months ago, on the coldest day of the year, Emma went into labor and both of our lives changed forever when our son Ezra arrived. At the beginning, it was an all hands on deck moment where we were both just working all day and night to keep Ezra alive as we tried to…
Ian MacLellan 