Tag: Common Ground
Common Ground – January 2026
By Jill Williams What would it be like to live in a world without spring…. a world without seasons where everything was always perfect and unchanging? A world without the tide of happenings, surprises…
Common Ground – November 2025
By Jill Williams “How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring. “—Edwin Way Teale In dark November it always cheers me up to see that the bulbs that will…
Common Ground – October 2025
By Jill Williams “October is bright as a bittersweet berry.”– Hal Borland During this past summer’s impossibly hot and dry summer I kept reminding myself that we had one more season to look forward…
Common Ground – August 2025
By Jill Williams “The great wonder, in gardening, is that so many plants live.” – Christopher Lloyd I’m not sure about everyone else but I’m getting very discouraged by this summer’s extreme dryness. In…
Common Ground – July 2025
By Jill Williams “I came to love my rows, my beans, though many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.” -Henry David Thoreau At…
Common Ground – June 2025
By Jill Williams “In the Junes that were warmer than these…” -Yeats Spring has been particularly green and lush this year here in the valley. It was good to see the daffodils and tulips…
Common Ground – May 2025
By Jill Williams ”The promise of May is the joy of renewal, a time when nature paints with its brightest colours.” John Burroughs Spring has finally come to the valley arriving about three weeks…
Common Ground – April 2025
“All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair- The bees are stirring- birds are on the wing- And Winter, slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!”…
Common Ground
By Jill Williams “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” – Hal Borland The first sign of spring here in the valley is the snowdrops coming up through the ice and snow…