Today is a day of sunlight glancing off the pure white diamond crusted cloak of Winter’s grand performance. A day of long shadows and blue tones as the sun regains dominance over the sky. The cold temperatures have frozen the moisture on the branches from yesterday and the glinting ice limns them with shining platinum. […]
2010
…And Still It Snows
I went to bed with snowy marshmallow views outside the window and woke up to a deepening snow enrobed world of Narnia proportions. As if winter will always reign. The evergreens branches are glued to their windward sides in awkward bows to the weight of the snow, recognition of the unseen Queen of Deep Winter […]
Tracy DiSabato-Aust Featured At Ohio Garden Show
On February 27 through March 7 the 2010 Central Ohio Home & Garden Show takes place, and Tracy DiSabato-Aust is speaking at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010 according to the Dispatch page, but the press release states it is @ 1PM and 3PM. Which is it? Normally, I wouldn’t try to […]
My Ohio Winter
It has been a snowy and cold winter, the present season broke records for cold temperatures. I like the picturesque snow covered landscape and several mornings I awakened to hoar frosts that transformed the garden into white traceries of laced branches and stems against the sequined, white velvet snow. The Cinderella winter season has given […]
Have We Done Very Much?
Sometimes this question is the adult rendition of “Are we there, yet?” Last time I wrote anything I (rather hopefully) said that the trimwork in the office was being done. That project remains unfinished, but I remain hopeful that it is bumped up into the early springtime. In the sidebar are several other projects that […]
January- The Month of Two Faces
January, being named for the Roman god Janus, is something of a two way street in time. The name Janus means “archway” and he was a god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings and endings [Janus. I sit and think of this pagan mythology early on Sunday morning. Looking backward and forwards at the same time […]
