I got a kick out of an email I got from a friend of mine early this week, adjuring everyone to plant a tree in honor of Earth Day. I wrote back immediately and told her I was celebrating Earth Year on our new piece of paradise. You see, for the first time in my more »

Yesterday was glorious, a sprightly easterly wind from dawn to dark, trees ready to spring open with their soft green offerings, the bulbs I planted last fall peeking above their leaf-covered beds. Sheryl and I went around the eastern corner of our house to find daffodils planted by one of our forebearers on this land more »