My garden may seem like a never ending maintenance job sometimes, but through the lens of a camera, or from the distance of the winter seaso...

I came back to look at this, my old blog, today, after helping a gal with starting her own. Gosh, it's been a long time, and so much has...

(I traded the book away on paperback swap) "I am so glad I don't have to go out. A whole day before me in which to think and be....

"Always dark... no sun... snow flying all the time, terrible storms, cold, very cold, and a great deal of ice there." - Inuit desc...

'Yet in a little close, however keen The winter comes, I find a patch of green, Where robins, by the miser winter made Domestic, flit an...

"The poetry of the earth is ceasing never; On a lone winter evening when the frost Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills ...

"Withering and keen the winter comes, While Comfort flies to close-shut rooms, And sees the snow in feathers pass Winnowing by the wind...

"The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, and the year On the earth...

"Come months, come away, From November to May, In your saddest array; Follow the bier Of the dead cold year." - Percy Bysshe Shell...

"oh wild West Wind, thou breath of autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven like ghosts from an ...

"In winter when the dismal rain Came down in slanting lines, And Wind, that great old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines." - ...

"The leaves which in the autumn of the year Fall auburn-tinted, leaving reft and bare Their parent trees, in many a sheltered lair Wher...

"Nature now spreads around, in dreary hue, A pall to cover all that summer knew; Yet in the poet's solitary way, Some pleasing obje...

Calm and deep peace in this wide air, These leaves that redden to the fall, And in my heart, if calm at all, If any calm, a calm despair....

"That time of year thou mayest in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang, Upon those boughs which shake against the col...

"Thus harvest ends its busy reign, And leaves the fields their peace again, Where Autumn's shadows idly muse And tinge the trees in...

Back in August I posted some photos of the glass yard art I was making. Here are a few more photos: (Reminder - click on the picture to s...

"Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt" - William Allingham

ASPARAGUS If melancholy had a home, it would be A garden in October when frost has picked The last tomatoes and pinched the peppers free. I ...

Does the time get away from you like it does for me? People say "what have you been up to?" and I never know what to answer - just...