A Foggy Morning In Bedford
It's no secret that I am an early riser. I just love the way things look in the morning light and for photography, there's nothing like the magic glow of dawn. On a recent morning, I was delighted to find my farm covered in a shroud of misty fog. I quickly grabbed my Canon 1D and ventured out to capture its wispy wonder. Please enjoy these photos.
1 My ancient apple trees looked so structural in the morning fog.
2 The sun began creeping over the tree line.
3 The day became brighter.
4 The old corn crib is a charming building.
5 The stables shrouded in fog
6 Another look at the old trees
7 And another
8 The light was especially pretty on the house.
9 Looking down the row of espaliered apple trees
10 One of my kitties hiding behind an urn
11 Look - it's Verdi.
12 The taller plant is Blue Rush and the shorter is one that I call Fiber Optic Plant.
13 My Stargazer Lilies were extraordinary this year.
14 Another view
15 The pergola disappears into the mist.
Lovely views, Martha. Thanks.
Posted by: MMC in San Diego | August 28th, 2009 at 12:11 am
simply beautiful.
Posted by: chez danisse | August 28th, 2009 at 1:04 am
Fabulous pictures Martha - we're lucky you are an early riser!
I love the new feature with the Blog graphics - very smooth transition from one picture to the next.
Always introducing new technology - love that about you!
Posted by: Donna Olson | August 28th, 2009 at 1:34 am
Martha, I love this blog I want to share a wildlife story with you. But first you need to check out this blog.
http://newyorkplantsandotherstuff.blogspot.com/ You should have her on your show.
Here goes. "Poor thing was trapped in the garage. I asked the lawn people if they could use the blower to gently encourage him out of the garage. This is the second time he came and it was impossible the first time to get him out. They were too aggressive and brought me his tiny little dying body. His eyes were going and his heart was going. I googled, I was instructed to get an eye dropper and encourage him to drink. I did this for about 20 minutes, until I thought maybe I should talk to him, or her. That did it, he or she took it as a nag, and off it flew to a nearby tree. I don't know if this is the same bird that my son had revived earlier this month, he took all the cobwebs off his feet and his or her beak then. I thought we should put him in a little water and then he flew off. I have a knack. A turkey once came to the garage door and was there all day, we couldn't get him to leave, and again as soon as I opened my mouth to talk to him/ or her, it flew off.
Thought I would share."
Regards,
Sally
Posted by: Sally Gallagher | August 28th, 2009 at 1:55 am
Dear Matha,
I am one of your fan in Thailand. I could not miss watching your program on T.V. (almost)everyday.
You are my idol lady who is so energetic and dynamic.
Your place (farm) is so beautiful, looks like a paradise. I could have just only a dream to be there.
With my best regards,
Bussabong
Posted by: Busbong B. | August 28th, 2009 at 3:26 am
Beautiful Martha! Thank you for sharing! You are the best!
Posted by: Pamie G. | August 28th, 2009 at 5:59 am
Dear Martha,
I look forward to your daily blog, especially the photos. No doubt, you have excellent equipment, but you have the eye of a true artist. It is the person behind the camera who deserves the credit.The lighting and composition of your work is of a true professional level. (I used to be a photographer). I love the fact that you always seize the moment, Martha. Thank you for sharing those "good things" that continue to inspire you.
Posted by: Roberta Palumbo | August 28th, 2009 at 8:09 am
Hi Martha, Lovely photos, as always. And, really prefer the way the photos were displayed in this entry vs. previous way. Easy to quickly enjoy the photos and not have to leave the blog entry. Faster, as well.
Thanks!
Posted by: david in portland | August 28th, 2009 at 8:26 am
I always wondered what espalier meant. Now I know. Great shots.
Posted by: Rhea | August 28th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Nothing like the dawn. I can almost smell the air in these potographs. Well done, Martha.
Posted by: Wanda | August 28th, 2009 at 10:22 am
lovely, i could smell the lilies, i could feel the serenity
Posted by: Charmayne | August 28th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Looks pretty cool, nice light. Fog or mist seems to be a real problem for me when I am shooting pictures--never enough light to capture the details as you did. Of course my cats are always available for a camera poise, or is it their natural state.....
Posted by: Margie | August 28th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Hi Martha,
I echo Donna Olson, “We’re lucky you are an early riser!” I don’t recall the last time I saw fog except from in your pictures. I do get up early occasionally but anything I might have seen wasn’t any reason to grab my camera. My pictures wouldn’t be anything like your pictures. Btw, I also like the way you have displayed them. They come up much quicker.
Verdi looks so beautiful and so does the planter with the Blue Rush and Fiber Optic plants. So gorgeous! I had to go back in the archives to see when Shaun pruned those espalier apple trees and it was April 17th of this year. What a difference in photos – the trees and the grounds look so fantastic now.
Well, it had to happen, (I should say again), with “Martha” on my brain almost every day. I dreamt your first show was on a cruise ship but it was docked, not out to sea. I had tickets but arrived late because I couldn’t get my DVR to start recording. I always tape the show. Everyone was going to lunch when I got there but I found you and Hannah Milman sitting at a table in some kind of lobby. You had a black suit on with a pink blouse and Hannah was dressed in jeans. Then you started to show me things for the next segment but I don’t remember what they were. Poof, I woke up! Trish
Posted by: Trish | August 28th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Martha? Martha? MARTHA!!!!
Where are you? Can't see a thing! You're out there somewhere I know, with that camera of yours! I'm lost in the fog...isn't it beautiful? Ha!
PS. Think it would be nice if you installed a fog horn at the farm! More coming I fear (fog, that is) so drive carefully! Please! Rock? Rock? ROCK!!!!
Posted by: tinay | August 28th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Martha, Your photos are so evocative. They transport me to another time and place with their beauty. Thank you for sharing.
Posted by: Kathy Fryar | August 28th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Simply stunning.
Posted by: Jeremy | August 28th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
I too am an early riser and love how things look at this time of day. I like the solace that a pretty morning provides me. Your photos are lovely and charming.
Posted by: sherey | August 28th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Martha - great pictures. I'm an early riser as well. I think the early morning is the best part of the day. I'm usually up around 5 and it's so peaceful and quite. I enjoy sitting on my deck with a cup of coffee waiting for the birds to start chirping.
Posted by: ann | August 28th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
This foggy morning was absolutely breathtaking! I just made the comment to someone yesterday that I wished I was a 'morning person' and proceeded to explain that morning was such a special time of the day, with the earth awakening to a new day. You captured your new day exquisitely, Martha, there around your farm!
Today, we see Mother Nature and her goodness. In yesterday's blog, her ferocity was the topic of discussion. She is NOT a force to be reckoned with, and I guess it's not a good idea to try to 'fool' her either!
=^..^=
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted by: Cindy Bricker | August 28th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Great photos! I love how quickly they loaded today. Makes it so much easier to look at all of them.
Posted by: Cheryl | August 28th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Thank you for sharing these beautiful photos. They are stunning.
Posted by: Ann | August 28th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
What beautiful images. You have a great eye for photography and ability to capture the light perfectly. Thank you for sharing.
Posted by: The Consummate Hostess | August 28th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Dearest you!
Lovely pictures and an experience for me to follow your blog from the norwegian forest.
Keep on give me inspiration to my own handcraft!
Atelier Kari Rudi
Posted by: Atelier Kari Rudi | August 28th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Beautifull pic...I am also an early riser and love the view from your stoop. I have a ? and would like some advice from the guru of shopping...LOL I'm looking for a product and would like your imput.
Posted by: Tamara McKenzie | August 28th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Gorgeous!! Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Kate | August 28th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Martha, a foggy morning it was indeed. Pictures were astounding as always. I get up early also, all is so peaceful and calm. Sets the day.
Martyjean625
Posted by: martyjean625 | August 28th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
this picture picture (ancient apple trees ) I've heard that some time back & it left a question ? I wounder if they are crab apple trees for you did say ancient. Can I take this picture & paint it? I think it would be a challenge to do.
KB
Posted by: k bartdin | August 28th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Wow! My favorite book is Mists of Avalon, about Lancelot's home. Your farm is like a mythical, mystical place.
Posted by: Sarah Goodrich | August 28th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Beautiful. I am doing a project where I take a picture a day for 365 days with any type of camera from my Nikon to my camera phone. I need to start rising earlier to get shots like these.
Posted by: Karynn | August 28th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
I'm up by 6am every day and out the door soon thereafter. When I was growing up in Kent, CT ... used to be I'd be up early to do chores and visit the horses, but now that I'm living in the heart of London - I head to Hampstead Heath or one of the local parks for a run. Good for the all important mind-body-soul trilogy. Leads to some poetic inspiration as well:
Yankee Dawn:
With foot a fleet
the dawn we greet.
Clear dew on vine
mist, thin blue line.
Soft summer days of bliss
life's lips we kiss.
____ & for the CT homesick days_____
Vicar’s Path to Home:
I run down the old Vicar’s path
an old route between the chapel
at the crest of the hill
toward the west
and that tidy little cottage
mossy brick
the whole picture
unsurprisingly vintage.
Bluebells are out now
and the young fox
classic white flowers with their
yellow pollen signal
the coming strawberries
long, sweet nights
no rain for days
summer solace and it’s
abiding solstice
one week away.
The vines on my route are
crawling up the fence
a discarded trash bag
the blue kind for vegetables
flips around
trying to escape
the green thorn clutches.
Mud dried up
only gravel and sand
collecting on my shoes
everything is slightly muffled
momentum, sight, sound, and thought.
I’m moving
following the guidelines
set by some vicar so long ago
forward and ahead
breathing in consciousness
and pretending
I’m home.
Posted by: Sarah Chase | August 28th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Thank-you for making it easier to view your pictures on your blog. It was somewhat trying.
And I love the pictures you have to share!!!
Posted by: christine | August 28th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
MARTHA! The pictures load so much faster now, in fact they don't seem to even have to "load" at all! It is so wonderful. I always love your pics, but honestly didn't view them very much because the page took so long to reload. Well, no more of that! I am so thrilled about this... I really enjoyed seeing how the farm looks on an early foggy morning - breathtaking.
Posted by: Jessica | August 28th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Wooow,fewer women go that close to nature Or nature lets very few to come so close.Honored' to be the in que of followers!
Posted by: Aabid | August 28th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
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To Morning Girl, (Remember that song?)
@MarthaStewart--TWO PORCUPINAURUSES GRAZING IN THEIR PLAYPEN CORRAL.
Always Imagining,
Andy J. and the Weimaratops'
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Posted by: http://andyjspencer.blogspot.com/ | August 28th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
I am not an early riser but these pictures are lovely to look at. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Amanda | August 28th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
The picture rendering is much better, now if you could only make the rest of your website perform up to current standards it too may be more enjoyable. Never seen a poorer site from a major corporation
Posted by: adam | August 28th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Morning Mist
Resolute ancient apple trees within a fence,within a fence;
Chiseled out against the morning sky that hurries hence.
Trees that stood the test of time many times bee kissed;
Chuckling for sure in the dawning air under a bonnet of mist.
On the tree sky line wispy clouds and a trickle of warm sun
The summer's day became brighter, but the fog stayed on.
An old corn crib with roof intact holds a certain rustic charm
With fog as a back drop silent witness to secrets of the farm.
Stables are a quiet monument to one of mans' best friends
Shrouded in fog on this day, waiting for a human to attend.
Morning light was especially pretty on the house dontcha think?
In the writer's opinion the Lady of the house is pretty in pink.
Looking down the row of espaliered apple trees this morning
Their arms outstretched to give thanks for another dawning.
Enchanting scene of tranquility and the secret of the urn
Surprise, its Vivaldi who had his eye on breakfast, gosh dern.
The plants Blue Rush and Fiber Optic duke it out, fancy that.
Stargazer Lilies extraordinary this year have a cheery chat.
The pergola with its colonnades disappear into the mist,
Night creatures scurry to hide and hope they will be missed.
Posted by: celia stock | August 28th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Thanks for sharing your beautiful photos. It's always a pleasure to read about your life.
Posted by: Sue Fawcett | August 28th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Oh how blessed you are to be able to live in and experience such beauty. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Posted by: Eucalypta | August 28th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I enjoy your images so much. I'm glad they go faster so I'm able to take time out during the day to check them out. Thanks.
Posted by: Diana Spencer | August 28th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
I love the shot with the corn crip! I enjoy the stillness that the fog seems to weave between layers. So peaceful.
Posted by: Kari | August 28th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
There is something so satisfying about vistas that can appear unchanged from one hundred, or two hundred, years ago.
Posted by: jw | August 28th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
By the way, it's nice to have photos that load quickly! Please be sure to notify Francesca and Sharkey about your fast photo-loading process, so that they will incorporate it on their "Daily Wag" website. Sharkey will be stunned by its speed.
Posted by: Sue Fawcett | August 28th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Wow ... beautiful photographs! Who needs Photoshop, right? ... (-:
Thanks for sharing,
Martha (the other)
Posted by: Martha Washington | August 28th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Martha - I can almost feel the cool, and crisp air in your picture. Thank you for putting a smile on my face. Just beautiful
Posted by: Camille | August 28th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
What great pictures - so inspiring!
Posted by: D | August 28th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
The faster picture browsing is appreciated!
Posted by: Alex Edward | August 28th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Hi Martha, What a beautiful gallery of photos of a glorious foggy early morning at Bedford. I love all of the photos and the new method we can use to browse them. That's really cool. The only thing I miss is the ability to enlarge each photo, but these photos are larger than the others were anyway. The early mornings here near Puget Sound are lovely, also. Some mornings are clear as a bell and others are quite foggy like yours get. Have a great weekend and stay safe. Jan
Posted by: Jan Erickson | August 28th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
You have a beautiful home. Wonderful pictures.
Posted by: Peggy | August 29th, 2009 at 12:07 am
Wonderful sunrise photos. I could "feel" the wet fog in the lovely, soft photos. I'm an early riser, too, silently exclaiming Thanks For This Day ---Martha, you might find endearing William Stafford's poem "Freedom" with its lines "you can usually be free some of the time/if you wake up before other people."
Posted by: Penny | August 29th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Ah, numbers 2, 3, and 15 are my favorites! They remind me of childhood early mornings when I would sneak out and look at the world all by myself! Such a deep-breath time. Quiet, like one is the only one awake and aware! Lovely! Being chronically ill, I am often awake at those times and can, some of the time, enjoy them as I did in yester-years!
Posted by: Jeanne | August 29th, 2009 at 4:48 am
wow.. so beautiful.. did you take this picture?
Posted by: Joowon Lee | August 29th, 2009 at 7:30 am
I look at the beautiful morning fog on you apple trees every day. We have your outstanding photo "Morning Mist" 06 that we won in the Good Things Event auction in NYC in our livingroom. I am also luck enough to have a beautiful view of the fog this morning over my backyard trees here in Millstone, NJ.
Posted by: Dianna Jankos | August 29th, 2009 at 7:41 am
Ohh I love fogs as much as low clouds, wonderful pictures!
Posted by: Virginia | August 29th, 2009 at 8:03 am
I love your style! Wonderful pictures and scenes. I love this time of year.
Posted by: Linda Price | August 29th, 2009 at 8:21 am
That is just stunningly beautiful and so serene! I wish I have a view like that in my yard when I rise in the morning, then I can perhaps become an early riser too, which I am not.
I am so glad to find you here and also on twitter, I couldn't love it any more. U see, I used to watch your 10:30(MT)show and often late for my first class back in college, I just loved watching your show every morning and couldn't take my eyes away from what neat things you could do and create on the show. It was just awesome! But then now that I am back in Seoul after all schoolings, I don't even have that any more except for few short glimpse on the internet.
Wish your show is aired here regularly.. and maybe someday..
Posted by: Jung Ma | August 29th, 2009 at 11:30 am
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The poem, the poem .... it holds hands with its love.
Write On!
A and the W's
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Posted by: http://andyjspencer.blogspot.com/ | August 29th, 2009 at 11:33 am
i love stargazer lillies....they are lovely
Posted by: susan miles | August 29th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Martha, martha, Martha!!! I luv it! I want a Canon sooo bad!
Posted by: Norbie K. Las Vegas | August 29th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Absolutely dreamy!
Posted by: Helen | August 29th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
I just love the morning shots. Such a peacefulness before the busy day.:)
Posted by: Barb Connell- Brisbane Australia | August 29th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Great pictures but I don't like the new format. I can no longer enlarge them to see the details.
Posted by: brian | August 29th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Martha, Thank you for sharing your pictures. It feels like fall, just looking at them.
Christine
Posted by: Christine Halfon | August 29th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
martha what inspiration and vision you bring to us all ... thank you for sharing your beautiful life ...i live in lubbock where the heat is overwhelming right now and you can see for miles without seeing a tree ... so believe me when tell you your photos are breathtaking ... love the blog!
Posted by: cynthia leftwich | August 29th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Your photos are pure joy. Thank you, Martha, for sharing them.
Posted by: Margie | August 29th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Hi from Australia! Lovely photos and I also love to watch your TV show down here.
Posted by: Heather | August 29th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Lovely, almost ethereal photos. I too am a morning person. My best ideas are at about 6 a.m.!
Brenda
Posted by: Brenda Kula | August 30th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Hello Martha, Thank you for the beautiful pictures. It must be nice to still find some time to yourself, to appreciate the beauty and peace of the morning. I don't know if you see all of the comments left but, I wanted you to know you've given me hope for my "art-life" as a career.
Big hugs, Pearl
Posted by: Pearl | August 30th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Beautiful photo Martha.
Posted by: Melanie | August 30th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Lovely, simply lovely. Early morning fog on the farm, stargazer lilies that are just exquisite. Thanks for the breathtaking pictures of your farm.
Linda
Phila, PA
Posted by: Linda | August 30th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Love the new quicker transition on the pics. Saw your tweet about it but took me a couple days to check it out
Posted by: Debra | August 30th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
I looked on your website for a recipe to cook fresh salmon and just had to stop and browse through the wonderful photo's you posted this morning! (August 30th) I have to tell you though your Oriental hybrid lily, does not look like 'Stargazer'. The stalk is generally only 3-4' for 'Stargazer' and has upward facing flowers. Your lily looks like 'Scheherazade', an 'Orienpet' hybrid that can reach up to 8' and has flowers that face downwards and curved. If it is, that particular hybrid comes from The Lily Garden here in Vancouver, WA. where they hybridize many lilies. ( I have ordered from that particular company for years)
Also, how about a Martha Stewart calendar again? I have one with recipes from many years ago, which would be great to have one again, but if not recipes, how about some of your beautiful photo's from your property on one?
I love all the information you are constantly helping all of us who love to cook, garden and the like.
Thanks,
Debbie Erickson-Warner
Posted by: Debbie Erickson-Warner | August 30th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Martha, I love the fog...your pictures ...you have a wonderful eye! It looks so peaceful, and quiet...While showing my husband I even whispered! lol..I cannot wait until your new shows! I love your blog, and craft site...but nothing like your show!
I can only dream of seeing something like your pictures oneday....
Godbless you!
Carla
Posted by: Carla Martin | August 30th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Martha,everything you own are beautiful. I love your Bedford property. It has magnificent things in it, it is sooo Martha.Did you start the farm, the espaliered apple trees?
You must have an abundant harvests of all your fruits and vegetables. What do you do with the surplus?
Martha, you are living my dream of owning an animal farm. Thank you for sharing your photographs, they are beautiful and inspiring. You inspire your audience to aspire for the best. RD
Posted by: Rebecca David | August 30th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Martha,
What a beautiful image to wake up to. In Wyoming we have deer standing in the mist. Only heads and legs are to be seen. Fog can be so creepy at times and then there is the beauty. Thank so much for sharing and if I had your front porch I would probably be sitting there waiting for the sun to come up so I could catch that first vision of beauty to start my day.
Posted by: Judi Geiger | August 31st, 2009 at 3:21 am
These photos Martha are absolutely spectacular . . .They remind me of a
modern time thomas kinkaid . . ..so tranquil and beautiful .. .
I am also an early riser and I love the scent in the air so early in the morning. Thanks again.. .Your blog every day makes my day!!
Best regards, Nina
Posted by: nina zeumer | August 31st, 2009 at 9:41 am
Love the apple trees. I'm starting my own garden and i'm going to try this. Thanks for all the ideas you've given us through the years.
Posted by: Deva D | August 31st, 2009 at 4:39 pm
I grew up in Katonah on Mt. Holly Road. I just love your photos, brings me back to my childhood. Thanks for sharing. Fondly, Alice Ann
Posted by: Alice Ann LoCascio | August 31st, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Beautiful foggy capture! Always so serene~peaceful looking, some think fog is eerie,but it to me is enchanting & magical!
Thanks for sharing a more personal glimpse into you're life~lovely blog!!
Cat
Posted by: Catherine | August 31st, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Martha I love your house it is so beutiful, the fog is wonderful and it looks like the perfect setting for a suspense movie. Love it!
Posted by: Marlene | September 2nd, 2009 at 5:47 pm
So lovely and peaceful before the busy day begins..how beautiful to see the gardens covered in the morning mists. Love your photos...keep the camera charged.
Thankyou for sharing them .
Posted by: Barb Connell- Brisbane Australia | September 3rd, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Martha, You are an incredible lady. Thanks for sharing the pictures. It was like a little journey into a paradise. Blessings, Jerri
Posted by: Jerri | September 7th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
hello ms.martha this is emily from philippines and i'm a big fan i love watching your show,and keep watching still,god bless and always be safe
Posted by: emily | September 17th, 2009 at 12:08 pm