Turn Left
I just had one of those moments that makes you wonder…
Brooklyn
A New Season
A hydrangea that I thought had died pushes up in my garden. A vine I thought wasn't going to make it began thriving in the last two weeks. The age-old lilac tree that we were going to cut down because it never bloomed, flourished this year. I took a tree class today with my neighbors … Continued
Vroom
I have a photograph of a baby duck that my daughter took a few years ago. I was with Jean at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden when she caught the magic moment of a duckling swimming past lily pads, leaving a ripple in the water behind her (I've decided the duck is a girl). And this … Continued
From the Heart
I had one of those moments the other day when past and present morph together. We live in a house built in 1875, and the man who owned it before we did and restored it himself, was driving down our street. I didn't recognize him at first. He looked at me and I looked at … Continued