Simply Pretty

Sometimes there is deep meaning in gardening. And sometimes there is just beauty. Peonies are just about the beauty, with … More

An Emptied Nest

Below this nest, on the grass, were two tiny birds with eyes that had never opened, featherless, fresh from the … More

For years the front yard was a rectangle of grass with one small spruce in the corner. Now Otis oversees … More

I’ve worked hard to create a bird-friendly garden, and this is what I get? Bird poop. Everywhere. It covers the … More

Iris, the quintisential May flower. Somehow I have yellow ones, but no purple. These flower spikes are over four feet … More

This one with chocolate mint and lavender. I don’t know who ate this cake, or whether they enjoyed it. I … More

This is my other garden – the Cedar Ridge Community Farm, where what we grow is given to local people … More

My big brother had a birthday, and so I brought him a cake – my now-standard almond with raspberry filling … More

My two fig trees – a 6-year-old Brown Turkey, and a Celeste I just planted last summer – have set … More

One Easter morning, over ten years ago now, I walked to the market in my small town in Turkmenistan to … More