Tag: Get Out
Glorious Decay
The Sugar Maple at the end of my street is now a brilliant fiery orange and lighting up the whole street. I know my large maple will colour soon too, although never quite as…
Get Out! – September 2020
It’s unmistakable! The heavier dews, the flowers now in bloom, the angle of the sun and the shortening days are all telling us that summer is coming to an end. Last month’s excellent column…
Gardening in the Time of Comets
Regular readers of these pages will know that “Get Out!” is both the title of this column and its frequent theme. This month, however, we are going far out indeed—as far as the comet…
From My Front Porch
The female snapping turtles are still out and about looking for suitable places to lay their eggs. This always brings back a very fondly held memory. When we were very new residents of Millbrook,…
From Winter to Summer!
The following article originally ran in 2013. Other matters have been keeping me occupied so I’m hoping you won’t mind a second helping of this column. COVID-19 was certainly not on our radar back…
The Lusty Month of May?
As I write this May is only a week away, yet it feels like March. I know it’s ridiculous, but what with the weather and this pandemic, the world feels upside down. But we…
My Eyes for Beauty Pine*
Early spring is always the time when I most want to see something in bloom, or smell a scent, or hear birdsong. And this year that need is greatly heightened because of the Coronavirus…
Winter Interest
April may be the cruelest month, at least according to T.S. Eliot, but March is surely the most deceiving. As I write this, red wing blackbirds are singing in my yard (a little earlier…
The Doldrums of Winter
Last month as I was sitting writing my column we were under a freezing rain warning. And a freezing rain warning has just been lifted as I write today. Luckily we escaped unscathed from…