The light was a bit flat and the greens are still struggling to fill but the company today was great and the locations—Greenbank’s Hollow and Peacham—stunningly beautiful. I can plainly…
The other day I opened my big mouth and said something really dumb: “I don’t like Crab Apple trees!” I did qualify it, but especially this time of year saying…
Much of the world does not want to be seen by us. It gets along just fine without our seeing it. One such gorgeous creature is the Virginia Rail (Rallus…
I’ve recently made a delightful, new friend. Earl is 10 years old. He is also crazy about trees and wants to know everything there is to know about them. What…
In the past three days I’ve been involved with planting eleven trees! What fun. Six big ones in the downtown area and five raised in our local Tree Board nursery…
For as many flowers as I’ve looked at I sometimes wonder if I’ve ever seen them!
Obviously I’m in love with flowers. Who would not be?! The see beauty like this renews my soul. Years ago I discovered the backs of many flowers have a special…
I so love having flowers on the table, close at hand. Seeing them in all of the different kinds of light is such a treat even if the wind and…
“As long as this exists,” I thought, “and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless skies, while this lasts, I cannot be unhappy.” The best remedy for…
One of the joys for me of living in the same place for many years is discovering places where a flower or a group of flowers grows and returns each…