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, […]
winter chores
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 […]
