Archive for May 2011
Spring snow
Today was one of those fleeting moments in the garden. At first I thought my mind was deceiving me….it looked like snow. But, even in Vermont, it should not snow on May 22nd. In actuality it was a myriad serviceberry petals (from the four Amelanchier canadensis behind the woodshed) being tossed through the air by…
Read MoreVermont Spring
A picture gallery of our garden in early spring…enjoy!! [portfolio_slideshow]
Read MoreNot-so-wild wildflowers
Shafts of sun streamed through the leafy canopy, highlighting an amazing array of wildflowers on the forest floor below. . Last Friday, when I visited Garden in the Woods in Framingham, Massachusetts, it was a quintessential spring day. I chuckled as I remembered it was Friday May 13th, an unlucky date for the superstitious. But…
Read MoreThe cusp of spring
A Vermont spring is swift and ephemeral. Spring in Vermont begins in late April, as the mountains take on a distinctly reddish tinge from the flowering trees. Gradually this is overtaken by a yellow-green haze creeping ever higher, as the trees leaf out in their predetermined order—first the aspen, then the maples, and finally the…
Read MoreShads are flowering.
When the shads bloom it means Spring has surely arrived. All of a sudden, these diminutive trees burst out of the shadows of taller trees and cover themselves with delicate white flowers…it’s like snow in springtime. In the valleys of Vermont this magic happens around the first week of May. Up here in the mountains…
Read MoreA host of golden daffodils
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. This beloved poem by William Wordsworth rings out in my head each spring, as daffodils in…
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