I had just cleared out nearly all the Christmas symbols, except the tree, making space to usher in All Things New when my neighbors offered me their large pointsettia as they are apparently leaving for the desert soon. Palm Springs sounds good to me. The desert is so lovely at this time of year. I [...]
Posted on December 31st, 2007 by Kathryn
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Last year just about this time I got a hankering for another Border Collie. A female, I decided. And I would name her Ruby, after Ruby Pease, who is an early ancestor who lived in CT in the 1700′s. A charming thought. Why not? It felt like a nice way to honor her, and make [...]
Posted on December 25th, 2007 by Kathryn
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It was when I was living in Appalachia that I first learned that pansies were actually a winter flower, that could survive frost and even snow. I’d only seen them used in summer on the West Coast, though certainly I remember my Grandmother’s fondness for them. “They have such sweet faces,” she always said. And [...]
Posted on December 15th, 2007 by Kathryn
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If truth be revealed, and you might well have suspected this by now, I am not exactly your typical gardener. I am, afterall, my Grandmother’s daughter. [See above.] Oh, I’m not above being seen with no makeup in my flannel pajama bottoms and a [cashmere, cough, cough] sweater with a [ditto] scarf wrapped around my [...]
Posted on December 11th, 2007 by Kathryn
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Just before Thanksgiving I went to visit my dearest friend Cornelia who lives out on the coast. I smiled as I stepped up to her front door, charmed that three huge pointsettias stood against the porch, still wrapped in paper for transporting, gathering in the moist air from the sea, and awaiting their place indoors. [...]
Posted on December 4th, 2007 by Kathryn
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