Living in Season

Hyacinths for Nawruz If, of thy mortal goods, thou art bereft, And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one & ...

I was at the University Bookstore today, buying my Ukrainian dyes for my annual Magical Egg Dyeing party, and I found on the bargain book ta...

Daffodil Daffadowndilly has come to town In a yellow petticoat and a green gown. It’s March 1, and, as usual in Seattle, the daffodils are i...

Deep sleeps the winter, Cold, wet, and grey; Surely all the world is dead; Spring is far away. Wait! The world shall waken; It is not dead, ...

I’ve been looking forward to reviving my Blog and musing about what I would feature as the first flower of spring. I always think of Snowdro...

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...