Category: Green Living

I’m pretty sure I’m living in a  fantasy world right now. In my world, it is 75 – 80 degrees in March, and I walk outside to find (under a bit of leaves and old dead garden plants from last summer) that several of our garden lovelies have miraculously returned from the dead.  Raspberries grow … Continue reading “March Garden”

Leucojum (summer snowflake)- some green lovely things for you today! We always called these flowers “snowdrops” when I was growing up, but I found out that these early spring bloomers are actually called summer snowflakes. Funny, since ours started blooming in early March this year. And last time I checked, March was not summer. We … Continue reading “Early Spring”

Yesterday was spent fighting through a ginormous throbbing headache all day plus taking care of three little boys (one who is still not feeling 100% better so I kept him home from preschool; another with whom we are in the throes of potty training (again); and the last who is suddenly getting into everything in … Continue reading “Springtime Dreaming”

The title of this post would suggest that we compost in the winter. Which would only be half true. In fact, once the ground freezes sometime in November, I usually put the composting on hold until spring. But with an unseasonably mild winter this year, I have been tending a bit to our compost. Moreover, … Continue reading “Winter Composting”

The after-dinner walk has become a family tradition around here. Over the summer, I waddled behind, pausing during contractions that squeezed our baby Emil in his watery world before he joined us in this one. But now, as the days grow shorter, the light fades earlier, and flashlights lead the way. Milo dashes ahead, his … Continue reading “Our Nighttime Walks”