This is the blog posting I hoped I wouldn’t have to write for a long time yet. But the day has come, and my heart is heavy. I’m taking a bre...

"People can only be found in what they do."   Timothy Findley, October 30, 1930-June 21, 2002. As we roam toward solstice/midsumme...

Coneflowers are definitely a plant I can't get along without in our gardens. They were one of the first perennials I put in at Sunflower...

It does not make me at all happy to open the newspaper, be working my way through it, and discover the passing of a person who was a light i...

Because Carol is a wonderfully gracious and understanding gardener and blogger, I know she'll forgive me for posting a bit of a bloom da...

Like most of us, life gets away from me sometimes, and I don't have time in my day to do all the things I normally do at the time I like...

Amy over at Garden Rant started an interesting discussion because she wrote an incredibly moving, but not maudlin, post about how she chose ...