Elsa Bakalar
Elsa Bakalar As a young single teacher in England during WWII, Elsa Bakalar was sometimes required to serve in ways other than teaching. One of those tasks was to hand…
Elsa Bakalar As a young single teacher in England during WWII, Elsa Bakalar was sometimes required to serve in ways other than teaching. One of those tasks was to hand…
In 1985 (could it be that long ago?) Elsa Bakalar, my Heath neighbor and friend, and I started writing an article about color in the garden for Horticulture magazine. One…
Last October I joined with friends, and family including Jake and Susan Bakalar, Elsa's nephew and his wife, and 'honorary daughter' Marie Hershkowitz who had been a student of Elsa's,…
Elsa Bakalar was my friend. This morning I got the call that I had been dreading. Elsa passed away peacefully on January 29. We moved to Heath in December of…
Other Writing I've created this page to provide links to other writing that I have done over the years. Roses at the End of the Road -- my book about…
These links are to columns in PDF form -- click on the link to open the file. Most have one page, but some "jump" -- so the file may have…
It is Autumn and time to look at asters - like Alma Potchke! The beauty of asters is that they will bloom when there is very little color in the…
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day brought a great gift - six (and I stress SIX) Monarch butterflies dancing on the Joe Pye Weed. This is very unusual. Until yesterday we have…