Holidays

 For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. ~T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” Hope everyone in the garden blogasphere has a Happy New Year.  Did you make your resolutions ?  I am resolved to make none this year [...]

Nandina domestica covered in snow I will be taking some time away from blogging to enjoy the holidays with my family and friends. Lots of baking and last-minute things to take care of before Christmas.  Hubby has to work Christmas Day, the Post Office is really busy right now.  However my youngest who is a senior in High [...]

For the second year in a row hubby and me didn’t feel like putting up our 6 ft. artificial tree, so instead we have this little 4 ft. resting on top of one of his speakers.  Are we pathetic or what, lol?    Now that the boys are basically grown I’ve lost my previous enthusiasm for holiday decorating.   I [...]

  Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life… a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year – and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God.  ~Ray Stannard Baker [...]