The Old and the Young I bought mums in September from the garden club mum fundraiser. For 3 weeks, they were camouflaged by the beautifu...

My neighbor gave me half a dozen gourds, which i put on the front step as seasonal decorations. Somebody's been eating my gourds--all of...

A hard frost came last Sunday and killed all the annuals. Sudden death. Suddenly the slow drift of seasons has become dramatic. Leaves falli...

A couple of weeks ago, i complained about a great blue heron fishing in my little fishpond. Bill often saw the heron farther down the lawn, ...

Yellow leaves are falling like rain now that we've had our first frost. Or maybe i should say "falling like snow" since it a...

Fall foliage is spectacular this week. The tourists went home yesterday, and still the red maples shock the eyes.This year, the reds are red...

When i pulled up the shades in the kitchen this morning, a blue heron flew away from the fishpond. That must mean that fish still live there...