Thursday July 2nd, 2020   There was never a better time to begin my love affair with gardening and it’s deep seduction as the last few months. The pandemic had stopped my world in one afternoon, one out- breath. Not sure what I wanted to breathe back in, I went home and waited. The creative muse draped herself by my side each morning, empty handed and breathless. Perhaps, I thought, if i am to be home for the summer, I could start a garden? She lifted her head with a smile and pointed to the barren yard -...

  Sunday May 3, 2020 The sun beckons me outside. The same sun that, in a few days will be intolerable and send me back inside when the morning slides spitting and sizzling into the afternoon heat. For now though, I will open myself to the late Spring warming my bones.  With the Stay in Place order/suggestion still in place, we have begun the debate about who and how to start the machine back up. Do we need as much power as before? Do we ease it back a bit and see how we do without straining the seams? For...