Category: Nature

  • The Net

    “Two things make a story. The net and the air that falls through the net.” — Pablo Neruda Dear Friends, The Caretaker is on a busman’s holiday, checking in on earthly properties while searching for adventure and inspiration by the sea. The flora and fauna are cooperating: But it’s the people and their stories that…

  • Seed Pods and Roses

    As you may know, the Hotel is located in a moderately warm imaginative zone. We favor seed pods and roses over snowshoes and Uggs. Before a glorious thanksgiving weekend gave way to the season’s first winter dusting, I asked my garden friends to pose once more before I tucked them in for the season. Like…

  • This summer many of our hotel guests are preparing for their nests to empty.        As always, The Half Century Mark attends to your needs, offering doses of creativity and good humor to get your through  important life change units. We recommend finding a new passion (like photography) and dressing up like your favorite…

  • “I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful, an endless prospect of magic and wonder.” — ansel adams I found the ansel adams quote from Dewitt Jones’ website: celebrate what’s right with the world. Jones was a  photographer with National Geographic for twenty years.