gardens

Philadelphia University where I teach had its second annual Day of Service today. Classes were canceled and students and faculty were expected to choose from a lengthy list of projects, a worthy cause they would work on. Some were quite organized and some were less so. I joined a group who knit hats for premature [...]

Some images of our tour of La Bonne Maison. Madam Masquelier and Heather and Roses more images . . .

Late Summer Rose in the Rain Bob grows lots of roses and this is one of my favorites, Frederic Mistral. It is named after the French Nobel Laureate, Fredric Mistral, (1830-1890), whose collections began The Museon Arlaten, a wonderful ethnographic museum in Arles. The year I visited that museum I also visited La Bonne Maison, [...]

Spent the weekend at my Mom’s in VA Beach. Her garden is the view from her balcony. Between the boats and the birds she comes up with enough intrigue to keep anyone busy. Her favorite birds are a pelican named Braveheart and an egret named Fan Fan. Ruthie’s Garden Mom is a painter but for [...]

Visited my Mom in VA Beach this weekend. On the way down we stopped in Pocomoke City at the Pocomoke City Nature and Exercise Trail, Cypress Park. It is part of Maryland’s Beach to Bay Indian Trail, a National Recreation Trail, was recognized in 1993 and links a lot of trails and museums along “ [...]

For all my friends and family members who have or are fighting cancer: “In 1938, the March of Dimes asked everyone to give up ten cents to cure polio. It sounded crazy at the time, but it worked. Now we’re launching a drive to collect 10,000 five-dollar donations in four weeks, getting us $50,000 closer [...]