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 →

My garden will never make me famous I’m a horticultural ignoramus I can’t tell a string bean from a soybean Or even a girl bean from a boy bean             -Ogden Nash Questions of bean gender aside, there are occasional, … Continue reading →