by Susan | Jun 19, 2023
by Susan | Oct 10, 2021 | Bird Patterns, Felt Patterns, Perching Bird Patterns
Cleaning the living room yesterday, I discovered this Golden-crowned Kinglet pattern that had slipped under the sofa. I designed it at some point but never crafted him. A gray Sunday morning was a good time to take him from paper to felt. Enjoy! Note: If you are...
by Susan | Oct 10, 2021
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by Susan | Sep 9, 2018 | Shop
For some reason, I think of autumn as the season for crows and ravens – even though I seem them all year round. Maybe it’s Halloween coming next month – or maybe it’s that I’m swimming in black felt. Here are two black beauties to...
by Susan | Sep 9, 2018
by Susan | Mar 14, 2015 | Backyard Birds
In search of bald eagles to photograph, I found only a crow on my latest outing. Common he may be, he’s beautiful all the same with his inky black feathers. Equally appealing to me is the way the light plays off the barren tree branches on this late winter...
by Susan | Oct 5, 2012 | Bird Patterns, Felt Patterns, Perching Bird Patterns
When the fog rolls in off the water and the crows roost in the treetops, their cawing voices eerily echo. Though they are not visitors at my feeders, the crows are a constant presence around the farm. This crow ornament, created from felt, perches on a twig with...
by Susan | Apr 5, 2024 | On the Farm
This was the scene on Monday, a week into Spring. We had ice-out on the pond and one happy duck. Just three days later, on April 4th, we woke to this. Heavy wet snow fell all day long–more snow than all of our winter snows combined this year. It’s been a year of...
by Susan | Feb 9, 2024 | Birds and Wildlife, Out and About in Maine
Hannah and I had an afternoon wander to shake off the craziness of my first week back in the office following my two-week visit with Dad in Pennsylvania. With temperature lows below freezing and daytime temps near 40, the river ice is beginning to melt. Lots of...
by Susan | Jul 26, 2023 | On the Farm
Typically, when Doodle spies me at the French door to let Gidget out in the mornings, she’s honking with displeasure that she’s locked up and there’s a pond but feet away. But lately, Doodle has been broody. And as a lonely duck, I know her mission...
by Susan | Jul 9, 2023 | Bird Patterns, Felt Patterns, Perching Bird Patterns
Yesterday, I enjoyed one of the first sunny days in weeks on the porch. Using the Merlin app, I recorded a great variety of birds in my little patch of woods, including a Crow, Overnbird, Hairy Woodpecker, American Robin, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Eastern Phoebe, Hermit...
by Susan | Jun 19, 2023 | Shop
It’s always like Christmas morning when a felt shipment arrives. I’ve managed to order only one new color to test this time. The happy news is that all felt colors and companion packs are in stock. I have also turned three free bird patterns into felt...
by Susan | Dec 25, 2022 | On My Mind
Christmas morning 2022 is our second morning without power. Our generator operates one outlet in the kitchen, so it’s a constant rotation of plugging in what’s most important. The coffee maker. The internet. The toaster. The instapot. And this morning, the...
by Susan | Aug 9, 2022 | Birds and Wildlife, Out and About in Maine
Close to low tide this afternoon on the Pleasant River – a muddy Bald Eagle enjoying a sea worm. Just the two of us and a couple of...
by Susan | May 10, 2022 | Backyard Birds, On the Farm
Hopeful, I first put the hummingbird feeder up on May 1st. I’m not sure when they arrived, but I spotted my first hummer on Sunday – May 8th. At first, it was a lone male. Today the aerial shows began with the arrival of another male. I spent the morning...
by Susan | Apr 9, 2022 | On My Mind
I was home from my 12-day Pennsylvania trip for just two nights before I was on the road again. This time to Togus VA Medical Center in Augusta, Maine, with Paul, where he had surgery to remove a tumor from his neck. His surgery went as well as it possibly could....
by Susan | Oct 3, 2020
From the back cover: Susan Jordan Bennett, blogger and designer at DowneastThunderFarm.com, offers twenty delightfully realistic bird patterns in her second book, Downeast Thunder Farm Backyard Birds I: Felt Ornament Designs. Bird designs include: American Crow...
by Susan | Aug 16, 2020 | Hannah, On My Mind
It’s 1036 miles from Milbridge to Granville, Ohio. We made the trip to college this year with a couple of stops along the way and moved Hannah into her new apartment suite on Friday. She’s in a building of four-person apartments. Each student has a single...
by Hannah Bennett | Mar 29, 2020 | Hannah
This was it – my final week in Copenhagen – though I didn’t know it yet. On Monday, March 9th, it was announced that all future study tours were canceled – which meant that I would not be able to go to Normandy, the Czech Republic, and Austria...
by Hannah Bennett | Mar 18, 2020 | Hannah
Hi. This is Hannah writing about my final weeks in Denmark. Seven weeks into my stay in Denmark, I had a free week. From my first week in Europe, I started planning this trip to Poland. Fellow students were traveling to famous sightseeing spots, but I wanted to...
