Living and gardening in an older Hudson Valley home
Autumn has begun in the Hudson Valley. The days are shorter, and much cooler. The leaves are changing colors and beginning to fall. However, the weather is still good enough to continue projects outside. One of my projects is changing out deer protection on certain plants. A few years ago, I planted oak leaf hydrangeas […]
Autumn has been spectacular in New York this year. Contrary to the opinion of many people who speculated the summer drought would leave the trees brown, they have instead displayed a rich palette of yellow, orange and red. The views, framed in the windows looking out of my home, are like impressionist paintings of vibrant […]
Mention Autumn gardening and everyone thinks of raking and gathering leaves. Without a doubt falling leaves generate the most work in my yard. Instead of thinking of the onerous task of picking up millions of leaves, for me Autumn conjures up days of collecting seeds. It is through the harvest of seeds in the Fall […]
The passage of time can be marked in many ways. Minutes, hours, days, weeks, years all measure our passage of time. Certain activities and events mark time and we pause, even for a moment to reflect on a particular time. In the kitchen is a small broom closet. Over the years this closet has been […]
It seemed to happen over night! First the leaves began to change and then they started to drift off the trees. After some rainy weather over the past few days and a windy night, the leaves dropped like an avalanche. The catalpa and sycamore leaves are huge and have fallen at a significant rate. No […]
