Holiday greetings to you!  How can Thanksgiving be next week? My goodness, the days are flying and there is much on my to-do list. I took a break from planning this morning to take corgi Gryphon for a walk where I discovered with delight our unruly English Hollies are graced with many more berries than…

Beautiful Autumn, what John Keats called “the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,” has arrived right on schedule. We’ve already had our first mornings with mist rolling in from our neighborhood pond, welcome rains have returned, and the first gusty winds have already begun to tug the leaves from our beautiful flame maple sending them…