Living and gardening in an older Hudson Valley home
It is nearly November and still the garden is yielding vegetables. While the number of things we are gathering from the garden is small in comparison to the bounty of late summer we are enjoying those few things still available. Small black tomatoes, rosemary, sage, basil, chives and hot peppers have gone into seasoning wonderful […]
Now that autumn has begun in earnest, it is time for me to reflect back on this year’s vegetable garden. It was an unusual summer. We had tremendous amounts of rain throughout the summer. My recent experience is that July and August are drier. Last year we needed to water the garden every day. This […]
After nearly three years of not getting on a plane and almost no travel, I went to Germany. When you put this into the context that I had some years where I was traveling at least 75% of each year, to not go anywhere was…..a luxury! A luxury I had some trepidation of giving up. […]
Dear friends from Colorado, Gayle and Bruce, stopped by for lunch on Sunday. An out of the way stop on their journey home from a Saab convention in Albany, NY. I have never owned or even driven a Saab so I do not understand the appeal of the Swedish car, but Saab enthusiasts revere the […]
It has truly been a busy Spring season. No one thing has caused it to be busy, it is just the amalgamation of an assortment of activities. I wake up each day wondering, where have I spent my time? Why isn’t it possible to just lie in bed. The life of the leisure class. I […]
My neighbor, a retired judge, has labeled me a killer. He chastises me for waging war on the creeping charlie weeds overrunning everything (but they have a flower, he says), the dreaded honeysuckle bushes which proliferate like rabbits (but they grow so well he says), and the bittersweet vines which kill everything in their path […]
Often it feels like Winter hangs around longer than it should. This year, I know this was the case. I compared photos of our yard from one year ago. The plants are blooming 2-3 weeks later than last year. There was some snow left in the yard, from a large pile, just two weeks ago […]
Outside the wind is howling fiercely, the sun is shining brightly, the temperature is hovering around 19 degrees fahrenheit, with a wind chill factor of 5 degrees, snow lies everywhere on the ground, just as it has since our big snow storm on February 1, 2021. Late winter is always tiresome, like a guest who […]
Valentine’s Day is a fun day. Who wouldn’t like a day synonymous with chocolate! Like most holidays, we learn the Valentine’s Day traditions as children. A day full of hearts, love, well wishes and sweets. It isn’t practiced in all countries, but it is firmly rooted in my life. Going back 100 years, I have […]
Earlier this month, Ingeburg passed away, at the age of 89. In the Episcopal church we include in our prayers people whose lives are closely linked with ours. Ingeburg’s life was linked to mine, and while this might not be the usual post, I wanted to write about her. Ingeburg was the aunt of my […]
