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I've worked in Bristol, RI - home of the oldest (longest, biggest, bestest) 4th of July parade in the country - for a few years but now that I'm an actual Bristol resident I can tell you the 4th lasts at least a month (and is plenty fun and noisy)! ...

It's probably too late for me. Smooth, milky white skin just isn't in the cards. I'm young enough that I grew up wearing sunscreen at the beach - but old enough that it was bright orange oil called suntan lotion and had an SPF of 4. Now I slather ...

I haven't read the book club's selection for this month: Passalong Plants by Steve Bender and Felder Rushing (every time lately that I sit still with any open book I pass out cold - it's spring...) but there's an invitation to join the club with a ...

It's already been a weird week of elfish triumph, freakish nature and things that nightmares are made of. First the triumphs: our garden elves and selves yesterday planted the cutting garden and spread leaf mulch (every one of us was eyeing it ...

Memorial Day is the official opening of the summer season - especially in New York resort towns like Rhode Island - and today's weather, instead of being an appropriately crisp (or rainy) farewell to Spring, is a muggy slide into the middle of ...

The North Garden is done! (pretty much. for today, anyway. mostly.) Yesterday on the way over with carts full of plants in nursery pots, Gail and I remembered almost at the same moment that we had intended to borrow just a few more things from ...

("wish it was Sunday") But it rained all over "funday" - somewhere between 2 and 4 inches for the weekend. There's always plenty to do on Monday to get (dis)organized for the week. This week we're planting. (That is going to start sounding like ...

Now that we've relocated all the perennials we had-to-had-to move and frantic spring is speeding along to an early languid summer (can you believe the maples that are fully leafed out already?!), I feel like we've turned a corner on the track and ...

Looking around the potting shed there are piles of to-do lists masquerading as debris, an open container of cookies, a variety of hand tools, filthy gloves, plants in various states of need, open books, unwashed mugs, torn pages from magazines and a ...

For weeks, Gail and I have been staring at our newest bed in the Display Garden like nervous painters in front of a blank canvas. There's something about a "tabula rasa" that can be just plain daunting. But like a painter after making the first ...