North Country Reflections

Simple gifts Watching the wind ripple through a field of grass in the warm glow of the evening sun is pure magic. Likewise in the garden, when the delicate stems of eye-high grasses catch the sun and wind, this is one of the September garden’s simple gifts. Movement is magic. Grasses: queens of the fall [...]

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 [...]