Even as I type this, it's gray and dreary outside, and an icy rain is falling making travel on these back country roads difficult. I had a massage client scheduled this afternoon, but any way off this hill requires me to go down a steep and winding road, sometimes unpaved and one-lane. There is one thing this time of year that keeps my eye on the prize and that is seed shopping. Forget the outlets, the shopping malls, and the shoe warehouses. Gimme a stack of seed catalogs in January, and I … [Read more...]
what winter brings
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” - Albert Camus "Let those December winds bellow and blow, I'm as warm as a July tomato." -Greg Brown, folk singer, from his song "Canned Goods" Today we welcome winter solstice, and at 12:11pm winter is officially ushered in. As much as I love the growing season in all its verdant glory, I also enjoy the change in rhythm that winter brings. On the cusp of 3 months of colder weather, I'm granted a … [Read more...]
