A week ago I was looking at the Forsythia bush shown above, blooming it full glory. This morning, Earth Day 2021, it looks like this: Late April snow is not…
When summer arrives and the garden becomes a wall of greenness, many creatures—large and small, pollinator and predator, flying and crawling, welcomed and not—countless variations of life, all come along…
Georgia O’Keeffe said of flowers in “The Poetry of Things:” “A flower is relatively small. Everyone has many associations with a flower — the idea of flowers. You put out…
As I have continued to discover these past few weeks, there are so many things I don’t have a clue about regarding how others live in this world we share.…
While growing up, one of my favorite places was my mom’s “Garden of Eden,” as she called it, a wild, lightly-tended flower garden she loved as her own special place.…
Every year at this time I fall in love again with hosta plants. Why not?! Here are just a few good reasons for my love…
There was way too much news this morning and none of it pleasant to read. If we reported what is happening in the non-human world, the Sunday Times would be…
Forgive me if I cause you to spend a bit more time in front of a screen so you can see what I saw when I took a break from…
Even if it were not for social distancing, being in the gardens this time of year is special. Even in “cold” weather, all other things being relative! Above is a…
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