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Report From PIA – December 31
Back in the day I hated New Year’s Eve. It seemed that people would get together simply for forced merriment. So some thirty-five years ago I, my husband and friends started gathering for a stay-at-home turning of the year. Now I love this annual celebration. I love gathering every year [...]
Report From PIA – November 29
This morning my husband and I hung bells on the arbor that he finished last week. We designed the arbor to be tall enough, and strong enough, to hold my bell collection. Three of these bells were made from old gas tanks by Provincetown sculptor Michael Kacergis, and the others [...]
Report From PIA – October 12
This morning we drove home to Poison Ivy Acres. Noah and Wan Yi’s wedding was delightful, and it was nice to stay at the lovely home of Alice & Burt Swersey. Burt gave me several plants from his nursery, causing my husband to claim that Burt was “aiding and abetting”… [...]
Report From PIA – October 11
It is well past midnight and after an evening of dancing, cheering, hugging and tearing up I am too spent to write much except this: to be able to celebrate friends, family, faith, love, and yes, flowers, is such a gift. I’m blessed to have all of these in my [...]
Report From PIA – October 10
A short post for today: After hosting GardenLine this morning I came home to discover that there was no way we were going to fit all the flowers for the wedding in Dan’s car. He’d picked all of the dahlias and zinnas at our community garden plot, and I already [...]
Report From PIA – October 9
There are days that my garden makes me feel like the wealthiest woman on earth.
If I went into the supermarket produce section and saw only a handful of green beans, a couple of tiny zucchini squash and a bunch of basil, I’d think that the store was poorly stocked and [...]
Report From PIA – October 4
Today I celebrated the harvest. I started the day by reading the posts on a couple of the blogs links on this page. I clicked on Coffee and Chemo, and Toto, finding that each post was about the Jewish celebration of Succot.
After leaving my computer I went to the garden [...]
Report from PIA – October 2
This day started out cool and clear, so after walking The Dog I decided to take my coffee outdoors. I sat on the circular steps that lead from the entry garden up to Annual Alley and the vegetable garden beyond. Propped to one side of the top step is a [...]
Report From PIA – September 26 – on assignment in North Carolina
As part of the Garden Writers Association meeting, I toured several public gardens today. The highpoint for me was the stop at Seeds. This non-profit says that its goal is “to teach people to care for the earth, themselves and each other through a [...]
Report From PIA – September 16
We live in a country where we can buy strawberries, apples and new spinach twelve months a year. This is both a blessing and a curse. Because these crops are so constantly available, we can take them for granted.
I was thinking about the joy of celebrating autumn today. I was [...]
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