“Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.”—Dr. William Butler Doctor Butler wrote this in the...

“The opportunistic nature of annuals is something that I enjoy, particularly when they find their way by self-seeding and letting you...

“Tis said, in summer’s evening hour Flashes the golden-colour’d flower. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge The first week of April in the hills of...

Sitting in a window seat in a plane descending into Los Angeles I could see the crisscrossing highways with the iconic cloverleaf...

“Like most people she felt ambushed by time.”—Penelope Lively There is a letter that the French writer, Colette, includes in one of her...

“Written in tradition as old as storytelling itself…time is contracted and the sun shines in the imagination where in reality there was...

Three days before the storm that brought a lot of heavy wet snow I had taken a photo of the magnificent birch tree that grew in my...

“All the leaves are brown And the sky is gray. I’ve been for a walk On a winter’s day.”— John and Michelle Phillips The bleak landscape...

Meleager was a Greek mythological warrior who killed the brothers of his mother, who, in turn, caused his death. His sisters wept...

“It’s not easy being green.” Kermit the Frog’s signature song could have been the theme song of the summer this year. It went through my...

“It isn’t that I don’t like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.”—Vita Sackville-West In the frenzy of planting in late...

“It’s a beautiful morning, ah I think I’ll go outside for a while And just smile.”—Felix Cavaliere/ Edward Brigati In the early morning I...