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By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer’s best of weather And autumn’s best of cheer. ~Helen Hunt Jackson If April is the cruelest month, as T.S.Eliot suggested, Septe...

https://nestofsquirrels.com/2015/09/15/septembers-warm-embrace/

I often think about gardening with my mom and grandmother when I was young. Time has softened the experience now, but the (hard) time spent in the garden as a wayward youth was usually as punishm...

https://nestofsquirrels.com/2015/05/20/sharing-the-garden-passing-along-love-blisters/

When March arrives, our green thumbs start to itch. (Okay, let’s be honest, our green thumbs start to itch in January.) But in March, we can really hear the garden calling. Partly because the ...

https://nestofsquirrels.com/2015/03/07/the-garden-lies-waiting/

https://nestofsquirrels.com/2015/02/25/winter-still-but-perhaps-in-those-slants-of-sunlight-we-see-the-beginnings-of-spring/

The Cold has settled in and seems determined to sit a spell. The Professor and I had been lamenting the fact that we’d had such a mild winter. Foolish mortals. We’ve been reminded (quite har...

https://nestofsquirrels.com/2015/02/19/in-which-winter-reminds-us-not-to-jump-the-gun/

The combination of a recent snowfall, coupled with a heavy application of black-oil sunflower seeds to the bird feeders, turned our backyard into quite the beehive…or…aviary of activity. The ...

https://nestofsquirrels.com/2015/02/09/honey-put-the-kettle-on-we-have-visitors/

“Let’s go wait out in the fields of the ones we love…” ~The National As the flowers wind down for the year, petals shriveling, stems and leaves hunched against the chilly October mornings...

https://nestofsquirrels.com/2014/10/21/cosmos-a-gardentime-odyssey/

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.~John Steinbeck September and the remains of summer have all but slipped away. The warm spell we’re experienci...

https://nestofsquirrels.com/2014/09/29/the-bittersweet-melancholy-of-summers-end/

Whenever we go on holiday, we like to scout out the cool garden shops in the places we’re visiting. Sometimes it takes a little bargaining with the kids. “We’ll give you 4 hours at the wate...

https://nestofsquirrels.com/2014/09/11/gardening-home-away-from-home/

https://nestofsquirrels.com/2014/08/13/wordless-wednesday-our-backyard-owl-and-his-brave-neighbor/