Flowers are the music of the ground… There’s something magical, and musical even, about discovering flowers in a new place. Today, the flowers in my yard were singing their melodies, and I was listening. (OK. I have been preoccupied with indoor plumbing and drenching rain.  But that, I think, makes the flowers sing that much louder for attention. Yes?) Anyway, [...]

One day last week, I was watching all 4 of Audrey and Matt’s boys in their back yard. 6-year old William was climbing over a rather formidable pile of to-be-discarded tree trunks. 5-year old Alex was climbing all over a rock that’s about 5′ tall. 3-year old Henry was demanding asking that I please push him way harder than medium…. [...]

I love flowers.  I always have. I believe in their magical ways of transforming and enhancing any space. I believe in the symbols that come to be associated with them. And I believe that flowers do have their own language. But there is one little flower that took even me, a true believer, by surprise… a Secret Phlox. I have [...]

Last year I embarked on a project I called 57 in 52… attempting to complete 57 wonderful things in my 57th year in 52 weeks. I did it! I sky-dived, ran a half marathon, entered a baking contest, completed a Half Ironman, zip-lined, took pole dancing lessons, wrote a children’s book, winter surfed in New England, pogo-sticked in spike heels, [...]

I love to garden. I love the smell of the earth… and the feel of it, too. I love beginning with a sea of brown and turning it into a sea of color. Gardening makes me happy. So why did I take a… well, 5-year hiatus when we moved into this old house of ours? I don’t really know. Barry [...]