Monday Monday, Markets and Gardens (and the teeniest smidgen of Melancholia)

 Double birthdays in our family today — our oldest daughter and our son (the last-born) have shared a birthday since she was nine. Neither of them are available to hugs, and texting doesn’t quite cut…

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Word-less Wednesday in the May Garden. . .

 The disarray inside has convinced me to take you with me on a little tour of the garden. . . It’s tough to spare much time for blogging — besides packing the good stuff and…

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Word-less Wednesday in the Spring Garden. . .

We have to be out of the house most of the day today (real estate doings), and so of course it’s raining, and even better (yes, that’s sarcasm), we left the car in the (big)…

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of gardens and babies and greying hair…

My last season in this garden we’ve created over the past 23+ years is bound to be bittersweet, but I’m doing my best simply to focus on the joys. And this osmanthus delavayi is chief among them…

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Easter in the Garden. . .

Easter and gardens, and I’m very aware that by next year, I won’t have a garden of my own for that Bunny to scatter eggs in for my grandchildren to find. But for several years…

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