Path to the other side

The brick path now goes from the driveway to the front walk and down the front garden to the espalier…

Brick by Brick

The path grows, vaccines go into arms, Covid cases drop…and rise. I have lost another friend. I hugged my mother.…

Bleak Midwinter

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…

Day Lily Season

Even in a pandemic the day lilies bloom. Quarantining a gardener in her garden is not such a hardship.

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…