Check Out the Link to This Wonderful Post: Creating Your Own Special Retreat From the World by Linda Buzzell

Don’t we all need our own special retreat from the world? Here’s the link to a post by new-to-me author and blogger, Linda Buzzell. She writes about the healing benefits found in nature and the garden.  She expresses my feelings so well that  I had to share! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-buzzell/nature-health_b_3134900.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false

My Mother’s Day Gifts

We have a busy weekend here. Today’s the dance recital, which means lots of work and lots of fun! This is our ninth or tenth year of dancing, actually I should say this is “my daughter’s ninth or tenth year of dancing”  but it doesn’t really work that way. As a dance mom, it’s myContinue reading “My Mother’s Day Gifts”

A Quick Derby Garden Update, With a Stop at West Beach

Here’s the Derby Garden when I blogged about it on March 26th.  Here it was on Sunday. It’s greened up beautifully. I’m sure that it’s at an even different stage now, a few days later. I love these old chimneys. Maintaining them here on the waterfront is probably quite challenging. This was taken by myContinue reading “A Quick Derby Garden Update, With a Stop at West Beach”

What’s Happening In the Garden- May 1

Happy May Day!  I hope that you had as nice a day where you are as we did in Salem. It was gorgeous out there!  I had to spend some time poking around outside and checking things out.  Here’s what I saw in between dropping off and picking up children… Lady’s mantle and siberian iris,Continue reading “What’s Happening In the Garden- May 1”

Containers With Pizazz ! Not Your Ordinary Container!

I’m heading out to the garden to enjoy this absolutely beautiful day, but before I go I want to share this great post written by Claire Jones at “The Garden Diaries” about using containers. It has lots of ideas for your containers, with tips on how to choose and arrange plants that will really pop.Continue reading “Containers With Pizazz ! Not Your Ordinary Container!”

The “new normal”

I read an article in the Boston Globe Magazine today by former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky about his experience during the marathon bombings and the idea that many, if not all of us, will live at a “new normal.” He refers to a poem written by a Brazilian poet, the late Carlos Drummond deContinue reading “The “new normal””

We Were There

Yes, we were there and I can’t really blog about gardening again until I write about it. I participated in Garden Bloggers Bloom Day for the first time the other day. It was such fun to join in with other bloggers all over the world to talk about what’s blooming and I saw a niceContinue reading “We Were There”