Category Archives: Always the Garden

The gardeners didn’t show up last week. Just plain didn’t bother to come.  Earlier this year after losing yet another crew, I was so desperate for help I went out into the streets walking up and down the neighborhoods looking … Continue reading →

All night long I heard the howling wind, that sounded like it was whipping, slashing, breaking, pounding down everything on the house and in the garden. It’s been that windy now for three days, and today again and tomorrow it … Continue reading →

I’m sitting in the garden, actually was (by the time this is posted) sitting in the garden, after a long long absence. It was as though a loud bell just went off singing throughout this land, “I Am Summer!” Come … Continue reading →

If you have a garden and water and a bird bath, sometimes it feels like paradise.Got up this morning and it is maybe 29 or 30 degrees out.  Coffee, sit and think what needs to be done.  Look out window … Continue reading →

My sister always asked me why I had to walk around my garden with a glass of wine.  Why couldn’t it just be tea or sparkling water.  Tea? Sparkling water?  On a warm summer day after you have spent three … Continue reading →