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Abbondanza!
Abbondanza – Italian for abundance A mild winter and a warm wet spring has set the garden awash in flowers and foliage beyond all expectation. Every day, another dozen flowers bloom for the first time...
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Except My Roses
You steal my roses, the things I love most in all the world. . . You could have taken anything – except my roses. ~ from Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast A perfect first day of summer, the solstice,...
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The Wood Thrush Sings
“This is the only bird whose note affects me like music. It lifts and exhilarates me. It is inspiring. It changes all hours to an eternal morning.” ~Henry David Thoreau This year, a wood thrush has...
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The Last Roses of Summer
‘Tis the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone ~Thomas Moore, Irish poet November and December have been very mild this year, encouraging me to work in...
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Wine and Roses
They are not long, the days of wine and roses Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream. ~Ernest Dowson, from “Vitae Summa Brevis” (1896) As I walk down the steps...
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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature is a help. Gardening is our instrument of grace. ~May Sarton Each morning this week...
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I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks As our world spins on its tilted axis through October, every...
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No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer. ~James Russell Lowell After near constant rain for weeks, the sun has returned and the garden is lavish and lush. Peonies...
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When June comes dancing o’er the death of May, With scarlet roses tinting her green breast, And mating thrushes ushering in her day, And Earth on tiptoe for her golden guest. ~ Claude Mckay, A Memory...
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We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it. ~Mary Oliver I stepped outside at dawn this morning to a tuneful chorus of birds in the trees above me. After days of torrential rain, the...
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