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...
Landscape Design, Seasonal Appreciation
In the hush of a snowfall or tranquility of a gray winter day, we can better see the form of a landscape….. A month ago, in mid-December, we still had leaves on the trees and temperatures in the 50s. Then abruptly, those temperatures plunged to record setting...
Holiday Traditions, Seasonal Appreciation
For weeks now, Americans have been bombarded with songs, images, and marketing geared toward the celebration of Christmas. We don’t often hear about them, but there are two other holidays – celebrated worldwide by many millions of people – that also fall in December....
Seasonal Appreciation, Wildlife Gardens
Once upon a time, people worked closely with nature in order to survive. A farmer’s work regimen was ordered by the changing seasons, hunters searched for signs to tell them when to hunt, and fishermen tracked the moon and tides to bring in the best catch. Nowadays,...
