Next to blood relationships, come water relationships..

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so..

There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into a….

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world..

Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and squeals and chatteri….

I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are times when one can't write, one should….