The beech tree is down. For the last few years we have been watching as the tree declined, knowing one day it would have to be removed. That day has come and gone. Nothing is permanent in a …
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A week into Spring and the warnings of 8 inches of snow? For those of us who are itching to get into the garden and dig some dirt, this round of late winter/delayed Spring is a bit of a challenge. …
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Every year there is an effort to embody the Civic Garden Center’s message in its booth at the Home and Garden Show. The center started as a resource for local gardeners during World War II. Over the years, …
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What does the lawn represent to you? To many it is a word like yard or garden, that space in which we try to work the elements of nature into our own private ecosystem. To others, it is the expanse …
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Now that the blasted heat has broken and we’ve gotten the start of Fall rains, things have eased, haven’t they? Just yesterday, as I was walking down Vine Street after picking up some art supplies at Suders, I noticed people …
Read More »Anybody else getting tired of the phone calls asking for money for various political campaigns? Being in a swing state, and in a particularly swingish county, has ramped up the attention, hasn’t it? No matter what our individual political stripe …
Read More »Arboreally, or perhaps dendrologically, we appear to be at a historic cusp. Even as the impact of the emerald ash borer (EAB) is just barely becoming apparent (over the past 2 years, an overwhelming number of ash trees have been …
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Last year’s peonies greet me each time I turn on my computer. There they are in a close up photo I took that now serves as my desktop image, all delicate and pink and white with just a fine blush …
Read More »I have fallen in love with a shovel. Finally. As an able-bodied woman of average height and weight and shape (pear, thank you very much), who is perfectly capable of double digging a garden bed or digging a deep hole …
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Just another sunny day. Buses lining up for the afternoon pickup. Cars zipping by, two lanes one way, two lanes the other. Pretty trees in the median. What’s on the trees’ trunks? Does the MomVan slow enough to spy something? …
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