Garden Ideas for Your Yard
As children, we learn to think of insects as bad guys, home invaders that we must squash on sight. We carry this perception into the garden and assume that all bugs are bad guys that should be blasted with chemicals on sight. While some garden insects are definitely...
Holiday Traditions, Seasonal Appreciation
We’re in the throes of winter, starting to count the days until spring with Valentine’s Day as the only thing to look forward to in the next month. Your challenge for this upcoming holiday is to find a gift for your sweetheart that shows more creativity than a box of...
Holiday Traditions, Seasonal Appreciation, Uncategorized
What makes one night more special than another night – one moment more magical? By agreement, we organize our lives and our collective history by days, months, years, decades, and millenniums. We pass from one interval to another at observable moments,...
Garden Ideas for Your Yard, Seasonal Appreciation
There’s a German legend about a beautiful and graceful young woman named Barbara, whose father locked her in a tower to keep the young men at bay. Fortunately, fathers have evolved since then! While locked away, Barbara pined for the warmth of the sun, the song of...
Garden Ideas for Your Yard
Long ago, February 1 was considered the first day of spring in the gardener’s year. It seems appropriate then that shortly after February 1, we start getting seed catalogs in the mail and seeing a bumper crop of special gardening publications at the checkout...
