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Henry James famously said when you stand up and the chair goes with you, it’s summer. In East Tennessee when you open the door in the morning …
In the garden, July is very much a month of ripeness as all the promise of May and June comes to fruition.
Henry James famously said when you stand up and the chair goes with you, it’s summer. In East Tennessee when you open the door in the morning …
In the garden, July is very much a month of ripeness as all the promise of May and June comes to fruition.
While a daunting task, I finally managed a small measure of dexterity with my non-dominant left hand. Unlike Dick and our younger daughter, Am…
Although it may seem challenging to get a poison ivy rash on the elbow, I managed to do just that this past week.
No matter how hot summer becomes, I have promised myself I shall not complain. I am more than tired of being cold.
The scent of an old fashioned climbing rose is the very essence of a May day. I have such a rose at one corner of my vegetable garden. It’s an…
I always thought it impossible for any plant to overpower mint. Sticky willy, however, seems to be up to the challenge.
Local stores such as Dollar General and Ingles are doing what they can to provide safe environments for shoppers and employees.
As you read this, I hope, despite the difficulties encountered in adhering to safe at home and social distancing measures, you’re heeding the …
Despite canceling in-person services, First Presbyterian Church in Lenoir City plans on continuing its community garden.
My determination to move all the house plants out to the porch or deck by Easter was thwarted by the weather.
The peas are in the ground. That statement should have exclamation points after it and stars surrounding it. Getting the first furrows dug in …
The Great Backyard Bird Count was held in the middle of February. Sometimes the chosen weekend is rainy and foggy, making it difficult to iden…
Through the ups and downs of cold and mild weather, rainy and not-as-rainy days, I’ve had some cheery companions. A stack of seed catalogs rem…
New farming methods involving drones are gaining popularity across Tennessee.
Dick cut and brought in last week a few stems of forsythia decorated with several flowers and numerous tight yellow buds ready to burst. He pl…
I’m glad I’ve relinquished responsibility for the timing of the appearance of daffodil blossoms.
As I write this, January is six days old, and yet red bows and other traces of the holiday shine forth in the living room or hide out in forgo…
As you read this, light has begun her slow return here in the northern hemisphere. Dec. 21 marked the winter solstice, the shortest day of the…
The recent snows chose to skip over us here in the valley, but from the windows in our breakfast nook, Dick and I gaze out on snow-tipped moun…
I’m sure many of you, as I am, are elbow-deep in pie crust and cornbread and chopped veggies for dressing. Stacks of freshly ironed linens and…
We waited as long as we could, but when we were looking at overnight lows in the upper 20s, followed this week by even colder temperatures, we…
It seems appropriate here at the end of October to write a column about ghostly goings-on, eerie happenings and unsolved appearances of those …
The crunch underfoot provided the first real hint of fall. Dead leaves had drifted down from the trees — not the wild colors we longed for, bu…
Wildlife continues to entertain Dick and me, or perhaps more aptly stated, wildlife continues to astonish us.
Most afternoons, despite the lingering summer heat, Dick and I stroll across the lawn, the grass for the last few weeks crunching beneath our …
According to meteorological accounting, fall arrived this past Sunday. At this time of year, I prefer to live by a calendar ruled strictly by …
