LIFE'S A GARDEN

I've been thinking about the observations I've been making in my yard and other yards I've visited this year. It occurs to me that maybe...

AS WE MOVE INTO July, I realize that we have had a nice, long spring, like one for the books. It’s not every spring that we can start...

THIS PAST SATURDAY we were expecting a normal slow day at our garden center. It’s mid July, the real feel that day was 112°, we couldn’t...

I am happy to say that I am home on a Thursday afternoon. Yep, my yard is calling out to me but that “heat dome” is groaning even louder....

THIS WEEKEND I was able to spend an entire day in my yard doing everything but mowing and weedeating. The smartest thing Mimi ever did...

The saga from my trip to India continues this week. I was at a point of the story where I was steadily climbing up towards a pass I had...

THE LAST TIME I wrote about my adventure in northern India I had gone as far north as I could get by bus. I acclimatized for eight days...

THE LAST TIME I wrote about my adventure in India I had acclimatize for 10 days in Kashmir, I was ready to head farther into the...

IT’S BEEN PRETTY clear that travel and vacations are not going to be easy to plan for and probably just not the same as it used to be....

MAY IS UPON US. Mother’s Day is a few days away. I’m hoping by now that you have found the easiest place to Mother’s Day shop is at a...

I THINK IT’S been long enough after the winter storm to report on what the outcome has caused. At first it looked pretty bad. The...

APRIL WILL BE behind us soon. It’s been a great spring so far. We have had more rain than usual for the year but not a bad amount. We...