Taking time to observe gifts of light . . . how they stretch and morph. Divided white light creating full spectrum shooting rainbows. While outside is a colder white. Happy School Vacation to many of you heading to warm beaches and family fun. We are up to our necks in snow, writing deadlines and building a new website. Butterflies are fluttering waiting to get out of my external hard drive and on to this page too. Much to do! … [Read more...] about Taking Time to Observe Divided White Light
February Sunrise with Avian Surprise
February sunrises paint the sky in layers of lovely soft lavenders and mauves. Our steady wobbling and tilting towards the sun gives us a few more minutes of light each day. We are happy for it. The Mount Holyoke range reclines beneath purple pastel washes, shadows and fuzzy lines.A delightful surprise perching within one of our strong oaks. A pair of Red-tailed Hawks. I see these stately raptors, sometimes daily, resting high in the upper limbs but never before two at a time. Looking out … [Read more...] about February Sunrise with Avian Surprise
Winter Blues ~ Eastern-tailed Blue, Summer Azure and Silvery Blue
Dreaming of Blues fluttering around the garden can shake off the mantle-of-melancholy winter sometimes weaves about our spirits. Today, I gather some delightful, inspiring and tender butterfly encounters, from this past sizzling summer, and toss them on this page of white, that they may bring a ray of light, to warm the inner gardeners folded inside our longing souls. Eastern Tailed-Blue Butterflies of 2013The progeny of these gossamer-wings are now chrysalises, or caterpillars in the Eastern … [Read more...] about Winter Blues ~ Eastern-tailed Blue, Summer Azure and Silvery Blue
A Frightfully Frigid Winter Interlude
Winter is becoming a bit freaky across the country creating whirlwinds of bone-chilling chaos and disasters in many states.Here, icicles dangling like dangerous claws, can be likened to imaginary bars of winter's bitter prison blocking healing warmth. Pruning will fill up much of February and March if days warm enough to hold pole clippers and saws.What was I thinking to plant a climbing hydrangea on the beautiful Shagbark Hickory . . . a good trim here and there will open to view some of … [Read more...] about A Frightfully Frigid Winter Interlude
A Frightfully Frigid Winter Interlude
Winter is becoming a bit freaky across the country creating whirlwinds of bone-chilling chaos and disasters in many states.Here, icicles dangling like dangerous claws, can be likened to imaginary bars of winter's bitter prison blocking healing warmth. Pruning will fill up much of February and March if days warm enough to hold pole clippers and saws.What was I thinking to plant a climbing hydrangea on the beautiful Shagbark Hickory . . . a good trim here and there will open to view some of … [Read more...] about A Frightfully Frigid Winter Interlude
