Loveliness

Is there anything more beautiful than a camellia? If so I haven’t seen it. Oh, my son’s smile is more…

Green Shoots Regurgitated

The asparagus is up! Yesterday was the day. Snapped off the first spear and gave it to a hungry one-year-old…

Standing on the back porch yesterday I saw a flash of blue from the bed underneath the magnolia and went…

A fortnight. That is how far ahead we are this year, spring-wise. The camellias are breaking bud, and there are…

A birthday gift, a blooming hellebore on January 15th. I knew they were supposed to bloom in the depths of…

Noah went back to school on January 2nd, but I did not. For one blessed day, the University was out…

It is Christmas Eve, and I spent two hours outside, pulling weeds, shoveling compost, and piling random detritus into yard…

Last year, just after Thanksgiving, I made a little pergola out of pruned branches. This year I took it down…

Went for a walk. Twisted my ankle. Fractured my elbow.

We woke up this morning to frost, and tomorrow holds snow. The cosmos survived the frost. They are resilient things.…