Living in Season

This is one of my favorite times of the year. I call it the season of the Pink Rain, when the cherry petals drop and carpet the sidewalks. T...

On Mother's Day, I made a quick trip down to Schreiners Iris Farm just outside of Salem, Oregon. It's a pilgrimage I plan every yea...

Ever since I read the book Tales of the Rose Tree by Jane Brown and learned that the earliest rhododendrons, brought to England from ...

As we do every May Eve, my daughter and I went out last night at midnight and wandered around our neighborhood in the dark, armed with bags ...

At the start of March, I embarked on a new topic in my year-long quest to learn about flowers. I began to focus on plant identification. I r...

It's not a glamorous photo but it records a sighting that made my heart leap with joy! The first iris bud of the year. Spotted at the co...

I spent the last week in a happy haze of violets. It all began when I bought a chunk of violet-scented soap from Lush, my favorite sour...

This is a picture of the first quince blossom I saw this year, taken February 25. But I didn't choose this picture to illustrate that im...

Last year I wrote a long post all about daffodils on this day. This year I thought I'd share photographs I took of the daffodils bloomi...

Red has always been the color of spring to me, particularly March. In Bulgaria, on March 1st, people tie red and white tassels called Marten...

I spent the day getting signed up with the Budburst Project . I'm going to be reporting on nine plants that grow on my block. My instruc...

On Monday, February 18, when I was heading to the flower store to order some flowers for my Mom's birthday (which is February 19--Happy ...

Ted Andrews in his book on animals writes about a folk belief that the first bird you see on Valentine's Day will predict who you will m...

I woke up two days ago to a strange sound. At first, I thought it was just the radiator, which usually makes fizzing and hissing and crankin...

Here's a picture I took last spring on February 4 of snowdrops growing just down the block from my apartment building on Capitol Hill in...

I found this cherry tree blooming in my Capitol Hill neighborhood on December 9th. There are certain cherry trees which always bloom around ...

I'm in the middle of the review process I go through every year, closing the door on the old year and dreaming of what I want in the new...

I've just come back from looking at the proofs of my French Republican calendar (you can order it from me at my website store ) and I...

For years I've been rather critical of the emphasis on shopping at this time of the year. This disdain serves me well as I hate shopping...

Every year I have the intention of making 13 different types of cookies for my solstice party, a tradition adapted from the Southern Europea...