by Val Thomson | Mar 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
Not that I ever really stop thinking about the garden…rather, the thinking subsides in the winter. And now I feel it come bubbling up to the shiny surface. Better check the plant orders. Try to remember what I wanted to do under the flowering crab now that the...
by Val Thomson | Mar 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
Donning snowshoes AFTER supper, now that the clocks have ‘sprung forward’, and trekking to see the sunset, and there it is so close to the boundary between the fields. I guess this means spring is coming. Yay!
by Val Thomson | Mar 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
Have a look at these obelisks at www.theclassicgarden.ca and then watch for further amusing Edith Obelisk suggestions in Val’s Garden.
by Val Thomson | Feb 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
I look at the lights of this season and, like Frederico Garcia Lorca, see “a beard full of butterflies”. What amazes me about winter is how we endure the wait for spring but, if we’re lucky, we remember to see things in the moment too. That way,...
by Val Thomson | Feb 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
Ain’t she the grandest beast? Well, if you know about the Maremma or Great Pyrenees (Dolly’s a cross) then you know they sleep all day and bark all night. And, they think for themselves. Val: Come Dolly, come! Dolly: Hmmm, yawn, hmmm. I’m OK here....
