gardens

New Beaver Pond in Connecticut. Spent the weekend in CT visiting Senter and Bitty. They live in a log home over looking a wonderful pond and fields, where they have created a sort of sanctuary for lots of critters. Birds of all sorts, deer, wild turkeys, muskrats, frogs and, it seems, a beaver. Back in [...]

This year my garden friends from Moore College of Art went to Brookline MA outside of Boston. Visited the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Wed and the Arnold Arboretum on Thurs. Sally couldn’t make it as she had horsey things to do and Jane had to leave early Thurs but here are Mike, me, Marge, [...]

Last entry said “School’s Over” Now, May’s over. Been a busy time—all the stuff I put off until school was over. Dr’s apt and the like. Visited my Mom for Mother’s Day and Fletchie for his birthday. To NJ to see Pam’s exhibit. Her work just gets better and better. We’re part of a group [...]

Well, the holidays are over and school has started. My first classes were yesterday. Right now I’m headed to VA to my Mom’s to dedecorate her house and to celebrate her birthday! My decorations at home are down except for greens around the door but it has been too cold to deal with that. This [...]

Christmas came and Christmas went and we did get the cards finished—mostly, and the gifts purchased and wrapped—mostly, but the food was gathered in and everyone seemed to enjoy . . . We still have some friends to celebrate with tomorrow, Bob’s best friend from the “dirty knees days’ and his wife, Linda, (whom I [...]

Well . . . it’s December 22 and that means 3 days until Christmas. This year we went to Kevan and Erin’s for an early holiday since they were here last year and this year is her family’s turn. That’s fair, I guess. We had a wonderful time—even with (especially with) the BIG snow that [...]

My nephew Jonna just touched down after a 28 hr. plane ride from the mountains of Afghanistan! Welcome home Jonna!!!

Just about my favorite holiday! Good friends, family, good food, time to reflect and get ready for the wild holiday ride of the next month. Wishing the same for all of you, especially my sister, Nathalie, who just came home from an operation, my nephew, Jonna, who is in Afghanistan, and my friend, Dennis.

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 [...]

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 [...]