Usually, over many hundreds of eggs for breakfast, I lay out one egg for my husband, and one for me. But lately, I crack  one egg – and lo, there are two egg yolks!  Another day or two passes with one egg for each of us and then – TWO egg yolks for both of us.  Thank you Diemand Eggs!i

Demand must have really healthy chickens!  During my years with lots of chickens in Heath I occasionally had a double egg, but this has been outstanding. Thank you Diemand Farm! (more…)

The sun is shining today and I have just talked to Sherry Wilson, a wonderful woman I have known for years. I know that readers of gardens were always eager for the weekly garden story.

Sherry put out great newspaper stories over years about gardens and the many kinds of plants and gardeners that she has visited and worked with. She has interviewed skilled people like Doug Tallamy who is one of my own great favorites. (more…)

Colin was born on February 13, 2023. Mom and baby were both a little tired after Monday morning, but both were happy – when awake. (more…)

Beauty arrives in amazing places.

I did not expect to find a hellebore flower in the snow. This narrow bed has been covered with snow, which is just now melting away, and it will probably be covered with snow again this winter. I have seen the foliage, but I never expected to find a blossom opening its flowers. (more…)

You might think we had a snow storm but it has been so mild that the snow is melting - melting - melting. The lakes spill over into the rivers. I enjoy watching the rivers and streams as  they come and go. The land is always changing, and always bringing something to see, to enjoy, to watch it change.

The snows have come lightly this year.  It is silent and cold, but a joy to see. Winter Trees BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon moves gently among the long branches. Thus having prepared their buds against a sure winter the wise trees stand sleeping in the cold.

Here we are in the gray of winter and I am preparing to grow some vegetables in my small office room. In the past I have grown flower plants under lights in the basement, but this is a different plan. I don’t have a lot of light or room, but I am  going to give a plant or two a try. How to Garden & Grow Your Food Year Round gives a lot  of good information. (more…)

Jack Mingo has written a delightful – and useful – book about being a beekeeper.  Mingo is a beekeeper himself and he knows “All the Buzz about Being Resilient, Collaborative, Industrious, Generous, and Sweet – Straight from the Hive.” The book is arranged in short pages and mentions the hundreds of native bees which live in different places  but it concentrates on honeybees. (more…)

The New Pie  (Clarkson Potter $26.99) has nothing to do with the garden, except that we gardeners are always pleased to have a sweet pie and a cup of tea in the afternoon. Although, some of us may have apple trees or other fruits in our gardens.   This New Pie provides Modern Techniques for the Classic American Dessert. (more…)