Tag: Common Ground
Common Ground – May 2026
By Jill Williams “Springtime is the land awakening….”– Lewis Grizzard The land has certainly finally awakened here in the valley. Spring is well under way and I’m trying to forget all the ice storm…
Common Ground – April 2026
By Jill Williams “Spring drew on….and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.”–…
Common Ground – March 2026
By Jill Williams “March is mostly a winter month….this is a month of promise, but also one of caution.” – Bob Thomson The New Victory Garden At this time of year I always look…
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…