May 9, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – May 9 A friend of mine once said that true affluence isn’t about having money, it’s about having time. To be leisurely in our actions, and to spend our days following an interest or desire is a gift without price. For most of us, there aren’t...
May 8, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, products I love
Report From PIA – May 8 When I was in the third grade my father told my brother and me that he would pay us a penny for every dandelion we dug out of the lawn. We went to work with enthusiasm, feeling rich from the get-go, because at that time in the 1950’s a...
May 7, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – May 7 May 7th is Garden View Day, and today I celebrate how just looking at a garden is cheering. Whether we gaze on our landscapes from the kitchen window, when brushing teeth or as we pull into our driveways, looking at a beautiful...
May 6, 2010 | Life's Gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – May 6 I spent the day with Sarah M, taking Mel up to bury his wife in their cemetery plot in New Hampshire. It was a tiring excursion, but in the end we all felt that we’d done right by Mary. She wanted her body to be near her hometown...
May 5, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, plants I love, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – May 5 When we bought the house at Poison Ivy Acres, there was a hydrangea planted under the kitchen window. It was November when we closed on the sale, and as I walked around the property, assessing the plants that were there, I saw from the...
May 4, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – May 4 My former neighbor, Mary Adams Plumer, died yesterday. I write her whole name because I want it to be recorded somewhere. She didn’t have children, so it’s unlikely that a future relative might be searching for information about her. She...
