Well! It’s finally stopped raining – at least for a couple of days – and the garden is losing its mind, with roses budding out ahead of the irises, etc (I think I already yabbered on about that). Hostas going… Continue Reading
Each season has its delights but, to my mind, there is nothing quite like a late Saturday afternoon in mid-Spring, especially if the weather is that weird ‘Summer in the light/Winter in the shade’. There is a particular, piercing light… Continue Reading
So. Remember I told you we are going to be talking Garden for awhile? Well, yeah. About that. It’s been in the low 40s, with pouring rain and a gale-force wind for the past week. I am going Nowhere Outside.… Continue Reading
Happy Spring, everybody! The weather outside is …weird. 40F one day, 70F the next. Last Friday I scarpered off to Iowa – no, NOT Iowa (we stayed on this side of the Mississippi) – um…Rock Island (home of the Arsenal and… Continue Reading
Sitting here, typing this post, looking out at a Whiteout World. Yesterday I was in the borders, ripping out Creeping Charlie (every little bit counts) tearing out new grass and tying up emerging rose canes. I worked like a rented mule,… Continue Reading
OMG! SHINGLES! So…here’s the thing: you know those vaccine commercials with the middle-aged White guys with the horrible shingles on their faces & backs? Well, I see those all the time! But since I am not a middle-aged White guy I… Continue Reading
I have been trying to write this review for eons and every time I start I get so much anxiety! How do you review a perfume that tries to snatch your very soul, every time you twist the cap on… Continue Reading