Thoughtful musings on various topics by interesting people at Blithewold
It just keeps getting better
Last night’s rain may have made a few of the daffodils face-plant but it brought out that delicious fragrance of spring that put the visual beauty almost in the background. Almost. I would have closed … Read more.
Reward after taxes
Whether you just filed last night or spent your refund check on groceries weeks ago, you deserve to treat yourself to another thing in life (besides death, heaven forbid!) that’s certain: Thousands of daffodils blooming … Read more.
Dilly Dally
The past couple of days have been on the brutally chilly side but I’ve seen quite a few bundled up people lingering on the grounds anyway. The reward is that spring is dallying while it … Read more.
En route
Last weekend it seemed like a switch had been flipped and the dinge of winter was replaced by bright emerald – at least underfoot. And the dimmer-switch of daffodils, forsythia and other harbingers of spring … Read more.
Therapy
Nearly everyone is badmouthing the weather. We are all, universally it seems, ready for spring by which we might all mean summer. We want to be warm now and surrounded by green growth and flowers … Read more.
Warm welcome
It was an Out Like a Lamb kind of day yesterday and we spent a portion of it in the mansion’s dining room with as many of the garden volunteers as we could coax into … Read more.
Mid-March bloom day
Many thanks as always to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for thinking up and hosting a monthly blooming show and tell. I’m a little late to the Ides of March party but it’s a blow-out. … Read more.
Emerge
Take a pretty close look right about now and you’ll see it everywhere – spring is just poking it’s head out of the ground. The daffodils are 4 or 5 inches tall in some places, … Read more.
Easily sidetracked
No matter what I set out to do, something else always grabs me. All gardeners are familiar with this phenomenon (and some have already written winningly about it!). I went into the greenhouse with every … Read more.
Spring in our step
I could tell this morning, when the birds were louder than the chuckle and siss of my coffee maker, that spring has sprung officially and certainly, no doubt about it. It even seemed almost a … Read more.