Window Seat

I garden from the inside out. My garden should look its most wonderful from the best seat in the house.…

Hello, Garden

I dug a hole and put a plant in my new garden. It is a lonicera sempervirens, one of the…

Goodbye, Garden

I’m leaving you for another, Garden. You have been a faithful and dear partner for 23 years, but I’m ready…

Sleeping Bees

A chill in the air has everyone sleeping a little later. I don’t know where these bees normally sleep, but…

New Stars

Two wonderful things are blooming, one tended and hoped-over, and the other a surprise gift of Mother Nature. The Obedient…

July Chaos

July means a riot of everything all together all at once. Flowers, vegetables, vines, weeds. The loss of the hedge…

Bird Feeder

Last winter I fed the birds on the back porch when snowcrete kept me from getting down to their usual…

Life Goes On

A pair of robins, displaced by the chain saws, have found a place to nest in the honey suckle. When…

Requiem for a Magnolia

My back fence neighbor had all of his trees cut down yesterday. These trees had been the frame and backdrop…