⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ As the summer draws to a close I’m compelled to remember the stages of my garden with Mr. Charles Dudley Warner. In 1870 he documented one summer in his garden recording every week. He talks about women voting, his neighbor Harriet Beecher Stowe, the visit to his garden by Ulysses … Continue reading My Summer in a Garden by Charles Dudley Warner
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Find me on Instagram!! @booksandloststories
Hello Everyone, As some of you know I have an extensive collection of old books--the pic above is only one shelf of four. 😂. They are so beautiful, and the ones I've read have stayed with me for years, so I started a little Instagram blog called, 'Books and Lost Stories.' I recently got a … Continue reading Find me on Instagram!! @booksandloststories
To The Jungle…
How To Water Multiple Orchids
Examining The Garden of Love…
Today as I was driving down Oxford Street I saw a woman on a refuge, carrying the Lighthouse.* She was an unknown woman, - up from the country, I should think, and just been to Mudie's or the Times, - and as the policeman held me up with his white glove I saw your name staring … Continue reading Examining The Garden of Love…
Garden For The Eyes-Write For The Ears
The watchers out on the grass could see the interior of the rooms illuminated by the savage glow. The paneling of the hall had caught, and even as they looked they saw the canvas of a portrait give an extra little spurt of a yellower flame and flutter without its frame to the floor. This … Continue reading Garden For The Eyes-Write For The Ears
A Peculiar Fight For Turgidity
The tame, too smug, I cry; There's no adventure in security; Yet still my little garden craft I ply, Mulch, hoe, and water when the ground is dry... -Vita Sackville-West The Garden; 1948 The other day I was looking up odds and ends when I came across a word I have never heard. … Continue reading A Peculiar Fight For Turgidity






