Second Season

A generation or more ago, fall was a time when you would clean up the garden, put out a few mums, and plant the spring flowering bulbs.  In the midst of all that, there was ample time to lose yourself watching the little wrens flitting through the aster stalks in search of delectable seeds.  The … Read more

Hard Labor

Now that the seasonal clean-up is underway, I am struck once again by the physicality of many garden chores.  I am thinking of jobs like trimming the vigorous rose that clambers up our eight-foot tall arch, or pulling down the rampant ivy that threatens the mortar of our high stone foundation.  Then of course there … Read more