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There Is No Place Like Home for the Winter

December 21, 2016 by Carol Duke 20 Comments

There Is No Place Like Home for the Winter

During January, February, and the first week of March of last winter, I was surrounded by lovely people, tropical hummingbirds, butterflies, bright flowers, and the Caribbean Sea.  A few days ago, when snow was falling all around Flower Hill Farm Retreat, I was not longing for the beauty and warmth of Treasure Beach, Jamaica.  Being home is inspiring.  The beauty of snow fog adds a mystical and mysterious element to being out in the gardens and landscape.  The leafless trees and shrubs are like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Apple Trees, Birches, Blanket of fog, Garden landscape, Mist, Misty Landscapes, Native Black Cherry, North Gardens, Rock Maples, White Birch, Winter, Winter Landscape, Winter Sky Tagged With: snow, trees, winter, winter solstice, wood sculpture

A Late Autumn Palette Within A Community of Trees

November 1, 2013 by Carol Duke Leave a Comment

In thinking along the stream of thought inspired by Wendall Berry, I have been pondering 'my place' within my place and the community I am blessed to have membership in. I am speaking of the land, of the trees and shrubberies, of the species of butterflies and bees and birds that coexist here at Flower Hill Farm. There is a language I have come to understand and the understanding came as soon as I let go of the ideas of gardening I held true and when I stopped and listened to the needs of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Autumn Landscape, Birches, Carey Hill, Eastern Tailed-Blue, Fall Foliage, Fall Gardens, Mount Tom, Native Black Cherry, Oak, Rock Maples, Walnut Hill, White Birch, Yellow-rumped Warbler

A Late Autumn Palette Within A Community of Trees

November 1, 2013 by Carol Duke Leave a Comment

In thinking along the stream of thought inspired by Wendall Berry, I have been pondering 'my place' within my place and the community I am blessed to have membership in. I am speaking of the land, of the trees and shrubberies, of the species of butterflies and bees and birds that coexist here at Flower Hill Farm. There is a language I have come to understand and the understanding came as soon as I let go of the ideas of gardening I held true and when I stopped and listened to the needs of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Autumn Landscape, Birches, Carey Hill, Eastern Tailed-Blue, Fall Foliage, Fall Gardens, Mount Tom, Native Black Cherry, Oak, Rock Maples, Walnut Hill, White Birch, Yellow-rumped Warbler

Light and Leaves At Play In A Bright Autumn Landscape

October 18, 2013 by Carol Duke Leave a Comment

It has been a gorgeous fall with leaves clinging to the trees far longer than I recall in recent years. The rain has held off, but the trees are slowly releasing their leaf fasteners and hundreds of their leafy members, like golden rain, are falling with the gentlest of breezes throughout the dry days and nights. The sounds of falling leaves . . . flights of leaves . . . piles of leaves . . . walking and kicking up leaves are all quintessentially 'Fall'. I am not one to run out and rake any … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Autumn Landscape, Carey Hill, Fall Foliage, Fall Gardens, Full Moon, Gray Birch, Middle Garden, Mount Holyoke Range, Mount Tom, Native Black Cherry, Oak, Sunset Sky, Walnut Hill, White Birch

Light and Leaves At Play In A Bright Autumn Landscape

October 18, 2013 by Carol Duke Leave a Comment

It has been a gorgeous fall with leaves clinging to the trees far longer than I recall in recent years. The rain has held off, but the trees are slowly releasing their leaf fasteners and hundreds of their leafy members, like golden rain, are falling with the gentlest of breezes throughout the dry days and nights. The sounds of falling leaves . . . flights of leaves . . . piles of leaves . . . walking and kicking up leaves are all quintessentially 'Fall'. I am not one to run out and rake any … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Autumn Landscape, Carey Hill, Fall Foliage, Fall Gardens, Full Moon, Gray Birch, Middle Garden, Mount Holyoke Range, Mount Tom, Native Black Cherry, Oak, Sunset Sky, Walnut Hill, White Birch

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