Living in Season

I spend the entire month of January dreaming about what I want to grow in the New Year, and doing a process of sorting those dreams into the...

Christmas Day after the presents were opened. My daughter insisted that one must rip the paper off the packages and throw it over your shoul...

This is what it looks like on Chistmas Eve at my house. Pepe is snuggled in his little bed (that Shaw made for him) under the tree. This was...

One of my readers commented last year when I was posting pumpkin pictures about how pumpkin carving was a true folk art. I recognized that t...

I focus on different plants at different times of the year. Through most of the spring and summer, I'm looking for flowers. Around Augus...

This is our Halloween pumpkin for this year, carved by my daughter. A reader commented last year that pumpkins are truly folk art. People ma...

I haven’t posted anything about making my rose hydrosol because I was disappointed in the end result. I have yet to make anything from roses...

If you read my last newsletter you know I’m taking a herbal preparations class at my local natural pharmacy, Rainbow Natural Remedie...

I've written before in my newsletter and my blog about the concept of Birthday Flowers, that is a flower that blooms on your birthday....

It's amazing how fast something becomes a holiday tradition., i.e., the Lammas Festival. I attended last year and returned this year, ea...

When you're a holiday maven, it's hard to keep up with all the holiday traditions you develop. this year I missed my usual July/Lotu...

I mentioned in my newsletter that I was really noticing the transition from flower to seed at this time of the year and here are a few picto...

These beautiful photographs were taken by my friend, Michael, who accompanied me on both my first and my most recent visits to Schreiner...

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...