Leaving a Legacy

Leaving a Legacy

Just recently, the notion of leaving a legacy keeps coming up again and again as I research and write blog posts and stories. Seeing the tree and the forest by veeterzy on Unsplash For example, during research for a recent story, I discovered a large oak tree near...
Daffodils in Bloom

Daffodils in Bloom

The other day, I happened to notice the daffodils are out. It’s not as exciting as when I lived in the UK – one day nothing, the next masses of them, but then again, mine have only been in the ground for a few years; not long enough to naturalise. But the...
Climate Change in the Garden

Climate Change in the Garden

We’ve seen climate change in the garden recently, because we took the first step toward our extension by cutting down some of the trees and shrubs, most of them weed species that had to be removed anyway. Cut tree on boggy ground, 2022. Photo by me! We’re...
The Joy of Freshly Mown Lawn

The Joy of Freshly Mown Lawn

In a rare break of sunshine, we did a little yard work. A bit of pruning, and weeding, and lawn mowing. It’s amazing how much better the garden looks with a freshly mown lawn. And how much calmer you feel looking out over it. It must shake up the lawn dwelling...
A Feng Shui Garden

A Feng Shui Garden

Chinese (Feng shui style?) Garden, 2017 by Leung Cho Pan via Canva With the change in the seasons and the whole social isolation thing, we’ve been working in the garden. Weeding, mulching, pruning. And having done a bunch of Feng Shui research for a fiction...