Years ago, a former neighbor’s daughter-in-law (perhaps in her late sixties at the time (though I am terrible at guessing someone’s age (she could... Read More
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… on a morning in maine
It’s early… cool… humid. The gardens’ heady scents, joined by saltwater, are invisible joys cast from, it seems, all directions. I am not fooled.... Read More
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… on hope and plants along a day
One of the cool things that I get to experience each season, here in midcoast Maine, is the admiration – via my computer screen... Read More
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… on an oops, a nope, and a joy
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time in the garden. The combination of preparing and up-keeping and transforming and discovering offers both mental... Read More
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… on blooming and resting (and budding)
Some – not all – just some crabapple trees work so hard blooming up a storm one year, they need a longer-than-twelve-month break before... Read More
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… on gardening in and out of a pandemic
May in Maine finds the gardens still at their beginnings. The forsythia still have not quite gone from sunny yellows to greens and the... Read More
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… on whispers from within
Here are the samenesses between Monet and his gardens at Giverny and me and my gardens in Maine. *Monet and I are/were/who-knows-may-be-again humans. *Monet... Read More
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… on the coming spring
The timing of spring is relative in midcoast Maine. While others anticipate the days that fall in and around the twenty-first of March, we... Read More
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… on the first return (and having faith)
The flowers in Maine – from peonies to roses to poppies to I-have-no-idea-what-so-many-are-called… Anyway, all of them. They remind me to have faith. Having no major... Read More
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… on a new and exciting addition to the inn
At The Inn*, we are always undertaking new and exciting projects for our residents and guests. The inside of the main building has recently... Read More