The music brought us to the Green Bay Botanical Gardens last Sunday. The beauty took our breath away. I'll add introducing me to that lovely, peaceful place as another reason I'm grateful to the Mile of Music team, producers of the excellent Grass Roots Festival. We showed up right at noon for the seven-hour event, [...]
I found my friend Carol in my backyard Saturday morning, cheerfully yanking weeds and making plans for a giant hosta that has never been anything but terrifying to me. "We can split it, and plant hosta along the side of your house," she said. I explained that I've always had a Little Shop of Horrors [...]
Our tour through our friends' garden left Molly and me speechless last night, mostly because we were chewing on all of the delicious goodies it produced. In a leafy neighborhood full of fat rabbits and determined hobby horticulturists, this box garden looked like the Taj Mahal. An electric fence surrounded wooden sections of gorgeous herbs, vegetables and fruits, including [...]