It is early Spring here at Silvana, our home and garden enfolded within a northern Michigan forest. The snow is gone and the property is...

The joy of hiking, for me, is discovering what lies over the next rise.  The view is often familiar and may even be commonplace--the edge...

I think we all have some thing we want to create, attain, experience. Sometimes our dreams change and we know it it is time to start...

A piece I wrote about making a reproduction sampler was accepted by Taproot Magazine @taprootmag. In the piece I give the history of the...

Miles Davis is the perfect accompaniment to my current mood. The last few days have been overcast, cool, and rainy. The Spring flowers,...

The morning is soft and still. A storm blew through last night and the sky and the air are washed clean. It is early enough that the...

"... to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself." William Blake #nature #poetry

Mud season and early Spring are one-in-the-same in my garden. The sun, when it shines, slowly melts the snow and frost in the ground and...

"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but...