Autumn weekend garden progress; from weeding, to sowing and harvesting

Spending time working in my gardens makes me happy. It's a special kind of happiness, so I welcome garden time. As I had a mostly free weekend, I was able to accomplish a great deal of progress in the garden. Balancing the worst job in the garden (weeding) with the best (harvesting), I transformed my gardens …

“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun”. Celebrating Katharine Hepburn on what would have been her 110th birthday.

Late one night, many years ago (around 1993), I caught On Golden Pond on TV when nothing else was on. I had no plans to watch it, but ended up sucked into the family story of 3 generations trying to resolve longstanding issues and conflicts before it’s too late. But one scene in particular started …