On the other hand…

The back yard doesn’t look too bad! I think I’ll just ignore the raw clay pit that is the front…

Oh, Sewage

So the 65 year old sewer pipe fell apart, spewing crap into the basement. But that wasn’t the bad part.…

One morning in April a few years ago I was overcome by the scent of Apple blossoms. How did I…

Last weekend I took my mom to the American Horticultural Society’s annual plant sale at George Washington’s old country digs,…

Has there been a spring this slow to warm? If so I don’t remember it. Easter has come and gone…

I planted Cardinal Flower for the hummingbirds, thinking nothing more of the name than that the flower was bound to…

How many years have I grown apples without ever eating one? I hope this year breaks the curse. I have…

It isn’t like I never liked birds, before. I just didn’t find them worth watching, unlike, say, a slowly developing flower…

It seems there is no end to the ugliness in the news this summer. Police brutalizing and killing black people,…

One warm-ish day in February I decided that what we really needed was a gravel path between the driveway and…