Mount Auburn’s landscape is composed of a diverse array of plants and trees that come into bloom at different times and in different seasons. What’s in Bloom: Week of June 17, 2019 Kousa dogwood, Cornus kousa, many locations Tulip tree, … Continue reading →

To be of use The people I love best jump into work head first without dallying in the shadows They seem to become natives of that element and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight….             -Marge Piercy … Continue reading →

…Let us forget the sorrows: they are there always, but Spring too seldom there; Once in a life-time only; oh seize hold! Sweet in the telling once, but not re-told. In Nature’s cycle blessed once a year, not long enough … Continue reading →

…Look, where the bluebird on the bough Breaks into rapture even now! He sings, tip-top, the tossing elm As tho he would a world o’erwhelm. Indifferent to the void he rides Upon the wind’s eternal tides…             -Edwin Markham  “Don’t … Continue reading →