Living in Season

I was planning to write about one evergreen every week during the Winter and thought I'd start with the most ubiquitous evergreen in my ...

New Year’s Power Surges I’m behind on my blog entries. Trying to puzzle out the identity of the various kinds of juniper (cypress?) that app...

Yew The yew is a tree with rough bark, hard and fast in the earth, supported by its roots, a guardian of flame and a joy upon an estate. Ang...

I'm reviving my blog after its long hibernation while I participated in National Novel Writing month for the fifth year in a row. I'...

I was fascinated to see the pumpkin show up twice in the French Republican calendar during the month of October: once for Vendemiaire 13 (Oc...

According to my holiday calendar, http://www.schooloftheseasons.com/sept.html in Ethiopia people celebrate Holy Cross on September 27 by bui...

Since this is a day in the French Republican calendar that ends in a 5, the 5th of Vendimiare to be exact, there is an animal rather than a ...

The plant of the day for Vendemiaire 4 in the French Republican calendar is the autumn crocus or colchique . This is a plant I mentioned bri...

The start of autumn equinox and the start of the month of Vendemiaire (the harvest) in the French Republican Calendar rightfully features t...

One of the things I love about this blog is the way it wakes me up to plants. I wrote about sedums and then I drove my car to work (yes! sho...

How bright atop the wall The stonecrop's fire. Robert Nichols (1893-1944) On Sunday, I went to the Library Book Sale—I always go on half...

Missed posting my entry last night because I didn’t have access to the Internet. Not sure whether this is a problem with AOL or with my cabl...

It’s a bit overwhelming to contemplate writing about the plant of the day for Fructidor 28: maize or corn. So I’ll refer you to the excellen...

The plant for Fructidor 26 in the French Republican calendar is bigarade , bitter orange. One of the great joys of this Plant of the Day blo...

Last year at this time I invited the readers of my newsletter http://www.schooloftheseasons.com/newletters/news090505.html to submit nominat...

The plant of the day for Fructidor 23 (Sep 9) was hop. But I chose to feature the chrysanthemum instead in honor of the Chinese Double Nine ...

My eyes, having seen all, Came back to The white chrysanthemums Issho The Chinese consider the chrysanthemum the flower of autumn. It is a m...

And in this the Lord showed me something small, no bigger than a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand. . .In this little thing I saw three...

No plant today. It's Fructidor 20 so the French Republican calendar features a tool: the sack, to be exact. At first I wasn't too in...