My mother died seven years ago at the beginning of February. We had to postpone her funeral a few times as major blizzards prevented me from the 500-mile road trip. This year the ground has really...

On a particularly beautiful morning last week I was driving past Polly Hill Arboretum. In the field across the street there were several dozen Canada geese. Because the field had frozen the night...

I admit I’ve been lulled into denial about January weather. Last week’s lovely days up into the 40s did not prepare me for the cold blast of last weekend. I heat with wood without the...

Last week’s record warmth, although wonderful, felt wrong somehow. Now I feel unable to get into a long winter’s rest. Marie came over on Sunday and we poured over seed catalogs together...

Hopefully this is my last week of just making stuff up. I’m planning to order seeds next week and do some major renovation in my attached greenhouse. It’s a train wreck out there. All the...

Christmas week produced some beautiful weather. The sun was almost noticeably warmer. Back in the 1970s when the children were small, we made a cassette tape on Christmas morning. We opened the door...

Here it is the end of yet another year and of the decade. All the news outlets are running articles on what has happened so I will not bother. The light has changed imperceivably. It’s the...

There is nothing quite like a couple of pre-Christmas snowfalls. It is so pretty with all the lights. I will admit I am happy it does not stick around. It tends to lose its appeal when a person needs...

That was some serious rain on Monday afternoon and evening. There were several inches in various buckets on the property. I read once in an old book entitled The Gardener’s Bed Book that it is...

Growing up in Rew, Penn., snow was a fact of life. It usually snowed at Thanksgiving and we never saw the ground again until mid to late April. I’ve been on the Vineyard for almost 50 years so...