These are actually from the big snow last week. We have yet to go out in our current blizzard, which might be even more impressive.

“When I finished writing this, the thermometer outside my door read 18 below zero. I now know that spring will never come. I shall spend the rest of my life reading seed and plant catalogues, and books about gardens and the people involved with them.”
This is a quote from Jamaica Kincaid’s “My Garden (Book):” It [...]

Thank you all for responding to that last post - I really appreciate your input. It was nice to finally think through some of what has been on my mind lately, and I continued to do so as each comment came in and through the rest of the day.
The result is a rekindled excitement over [...]

Before I begin this post, I have a question for my five remaining readers: what are your feelings about my posts about gardening?
I ask because I’m not sure what to do here. I haven’t been blogging much for months now, but certainly when I do there is a high frequency of posts about plants, gardening, [...]