I delight in the differences that often come with a season from year to year. This year the Pulmonaria in the garden is everywhere, though I’ve never planted a single one, and in…
We are fortunate here in Central Vermont to have all sorts of amazing artists and musicians sharing their work. Over the weekend I again heard one of the local concert pianists,…
In the nearly 40 years we’ve lived in Central Vermont—right in town—I’ve transformed the yard from all lawn to no lawn. Much of it is a sort of wild garden—really just…
I love how part of me waits all the long winter for Spring and, then, when it finally arrives (April is still winter in Vermont!), it all happens so fast.…
We visited Montpelier Saturday—in Virginia, the home of James Madison! It’s been too long since the last American history class (1965) and so we had fun brushing up on the…
While I’m happy to be moving toward Spring, even if slowly, I’ll miss seeing the bones of the bare trees that will soon to be covered again in leaves. They…
Imagine if we only had one home planet. This morning Daphne opened to great the day. So much of life is truly this gorgeous every single day!
The past two days have been gorgeously wild and windy and this poem by my friend Katie, a marvelous writer and human being, say it all so well that it…
After my shameless whining yesterday, the sun popped out and the temperature shot up to 65F. I don’t think it was a cause and effect relationship but, WOW, was it…
Two weeks ago it looked like Spring was “right around the corner!” I even raked some leaves off a strawberry bed and worked on some over-wintering salad greens. Then Vermont…
Still Learning To See 