It is bleak indeed. Over four hundred thousand people dead of Covid, insurrection at the Capitol, inequity rolling on and…
Building Things
What better way is there to exert control over an uncontrollable world than to build things? Noah and I laid…
Magnolia
Day Lily Season
Even in a pandemic the day lilies bloom. Quarantining a gardener in her garden is not such a hardship.
Gardening in the time of COVID
With worry everywhere around us, and no where at all to go, gardening is my best relief. It is a…
Winterless Winter
February 22 and there has been no snow and very little cold. The rose canes have leaf buds and the…
A Wet Christmas
As soon as the Christmas tree comes down, I start thinking of gardening. It has been a few months since…
Restless
The new year always makes me restless, and I take it out on my garden. It has been warm-ish and…
Death Knell
The roses on the front porch have Witches Broom – or rose rosette disease – caused by a virus carried…