Category: Nature
Why #WaterIs Everything
March 22 is #WorldWaterDay and I’m joining World Vision to spread awareness for people around the globe who need safe water sources. Despite impressive gains made over the last decade, 748 milli... Read More
When Irish Eyes Aren’t Smiling But
You know things aren’t okay when it’s 3 am and I’m racing to get a post up. After an excruciating day of slow and crashing computers I called my host, Godaddy and apparently they are... Read More
The Garden Muse Wisdom: Do This When Snowed Under
The stone garden muse has been literally snowed under and so have I: on every level. Buried with work and piles of papers, laundry and snow growing is this winter’s metaphor. It was time to dr... Read More
Monday Motivation: Gorgeous Rose Garden in Smell-o-Vision
Can you remember the smell of the perfume your grandmother or mother wore? How about the scent your baby’s or cat’s head? It’s all in your head. That’s how you can access you... Read More
From Imbolc, Candlemas to Groundhog Day
Here we go again. Groundhog Day like most holidays has pagan roots. It the old days badgers were used as weather prognosticators while celebrating Imbolc, the pagan Celtic holiday marking the midway p... Read More
Monday Motivation: New York Blizzard
We were late putting away the lawn furniture this year. So late we figured why not leave a couple of chairs to measure snow accumulation. For fun. This was sn... Read More
Don’t Feed Your Inner Grinch
The holiday spirit was being siphoned off by my inner Grinch. Not that there is anything wrong with being a Grinch. It beat smiling a phony ho, ho, ho and isn’t it the most wonderful time of the... Read More
Falling Into the Zen of Fall
Whoops, I’m back from what feels like death, a rabbit hole, a hamster wheel on steroids. In six years of blogging this has never happened to me. Sure it might be 3 am... Read More