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Coveted Qualities, or, What Plants Can Teach Us

Posted in Gardening, Random Thoughts, tagged , , , on April 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Resiliency is the ability to bounce back – to recover, to persevere, no matter what. It’s an enviable quality and one we don’t understand well. Kids grow up in a screwed up family – one gets tough, the other gets hurt. Couples get divorced – one partner thrives, while the other flails. A company lays [...]

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Peas will you be my Valentine?

Posted in Gardening, tagged , , , on February 21, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Years ago, when I was living in Knoxville, Tennessee, I arrived at the office the Monday after February 14 to be greeted with the friendly question, “So did y’all get your peas in this weekend?” Um – Peas? In February? Kimmy, our department secretary, whose mother raised bees in a garden so productive people whispered [...]

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My new favorite plant

Posted in Gardening, tagged , , , , on December 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »

This is my new favorite plant.   It is Tagetes lemmonii, commonly known as the Mexican Bush Marigold. I love it because it is so unlike me, with many qualities I aspire to but don’t necessarily achieve.  One of these is endless optimism.  This one went into the ground at the end of the summer [...]

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Candles of gratitude

Posted in Gardening, Random Thoughts, tagged , , on November 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

These are the dark times. A month from now, we’ll reach the winter solstice, when the world will start getting lighter again, which means it’s eight long weeks to get back to where we are now, which is dark. And then there’s my Keeping the wolves at bay issue – January 4th will be the 10th [...]

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Holiday decor, northern California style

Posted in Designing, Gardening, tagged , , , , on November 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Here in northern California, fall looks different than it does in the storybooks. We don’t have snow. We don’t have holly. We don’t have pine trees. What we DO have is redwood trees – and, courtesy of the tree trimming we had done recently, lots and lots of redwood branches. We also have flowers. Yes, [...]

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