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I have a favourite song from my daughter, Erica Lee Martin’s album, Out of The Playground. It’s called I Push On and it just gets me. It’s poignant and haunting and it speaks about facing challenges and finding inspiration to keep going. I just love it. For those of us who aren’t blessed with an...
I was feeling the greyness of November very heavily on my psyche the other day, when I wrote the post, November Blues. I don’t think I really believed that it was only the dreariness of the weather that was making me feel so down, but when I woke up this morning and the world was...
It’s a dreary month, no question, but the Nordic countries have something they call “hygge”, a Danish word defined in English as “A quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being.” (thank you, Oxford Living Dictionary) I think the idea is to make up for the lack of light...
The wonderful world of computers I think the word to describe my state is “nonplussed”. I’ve been using my iPad for so long that I’ve forgotten many simple procedures on the computer. My husband gave me his old Macbook Pro and it works well, but in some ways the iPad is simpler, or I was...
Today was a weird day. Not in a bad way, but, still, weird. First of all, I woke up at 9:30, having gone to sleep at 11:30, with one hour of wakefulness in the middle of the night. That is an insane amount of sleep for me. I’m very happy if I get between 6-7...
I’m not quite ready to abandon the gardening aspect of my blog for the year, because I have an update! I spent a tranquil hour at Jasmin yesterday, wandering between the aisles of plants, vacillating between hydrangea cultivars (if that’s the word I want). I was drawn towards one called hydrangea paniculata Fire light because of...
It’s September and the gardening season is winding to a close, just as I’m thinking of doing some after a long, hot summer of avoiding garden work like the plague! Aside from a couple of good days of weeding and dead-heading, I have done very little. On the other hand, amazingly, the garden is still...
A renovation is a renewal and in this case, out with the old, in with the new. I have been displeased with a couple of spots in the garden for a few years now and I’ve finally taken the bull by the horns and dug out one of the offending areas. The major problem with...
It’s high time I wrote a little bit about the Tranquil Garden. Here it is, June 6th, and I’m probably halfway through my yearly gardening frenzy. I know my enthusiasm will wane as the temperature soars, but right now I’m in love with the garden and have all kinds of plans. I’ve been spending some...