First year that we didn’t dive into near or below zero temperatures in the first week of the year. Usually I can count on it- I have a recollection for such things ever since a Junior High allergic reation exacerbated by the low temps made me into a temporary circus freak. So I now have […]
winter
White or Green?
It is Ohio, so it’s any ones guess. For now, we have good gardening weather, if only the Holiday preparations allowed any time for it. I did manage to continue sprucing up the yard a bit and the kids prevailed upon the husband for the Christmas lights outdoors. Mostly they put them up themselves ( […]
Winter’s Blast
Winter is coming in with a vengeance, isn’t it? Today was one of those days where you could feel the mercury drop by the hour. I started up the stove, but it couldn’t keep up with the cold, so we put on our sweaters around here. I saw on the news how bad some people […]
Mission Accomplished
I finished the garden chores, as intended, yesterday. It was mild, but I would have loved to have seen just a last hurrah of sunshine before this weeks predicted storms moved in. But, alas, no. Partly sunny turned out to be mostly cloudy;) I mainly pruned away some of the branches of the Shasta viburnums, […]
Garden Transitions
The transitions of the seasons in my garden are the allegory of my life right now. I have a love-hate relationship with gardening that mirrors the love-hate relationship I have with my body as it ages and it gets harder to have it be what I want it to be. Sometimes my garden mocks me […]
I’m Not Gardening
That’s right… it’s cold and wet, and I have no desire to do the work this year. Tsk -tsk is the proper response. We are doing the leaf raking, and I suppose I will have to get out there and do some pre-winter prunings. but I am ready -earlier than usual- to hole up and […]
