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Subtle Pallet Awaits You in Winter’s Woods
This subtle pallet drew me to this woodland winter place. Indeed the hues of white, silvery green, blues, brown, and charcoal color my living room. I love the contrast of large and small, vertical and horizontal. Tree trunks of varying widths painted with splotches of silvery green lichen contrasts with narrower branches of saplings and… Read more
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Arnold keeps its Promise
Away over President’s Day holiday weekend, I returned to find the Witch Hazel ‘Arnold’s Promise’ in full bloom! This wonderful Hamamelis leads the way to springs’ bounty. Depending on the winter it blooms from anywhere from late January or early February to April. In last year’s record- setting cold and deep snow cover winter it… Read more
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Winter Wonder Found on a Chilly Morning
Twenty degrees Fahrenheit at 9am on a Sunday morning. A cold January New England day with a wind chill factor of 0! I spotted this evergreen fern thriving in this hundred fifty year old foundation wall. Cold or not, I paused to admire and dig out my camera. The field-stone wall retains the glacier made… Read more
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Enjoying My Winter View
I snapped this photo on New Year’s Day–Just before I took down the Christmas tree. I so enjoyed the view of the tree, the deck containers filled with winter greens, and the forest landscape beyond. I also like the way the railing pickets’ shadows and the lower containers’ foliage create patterns on the deck. And… Read more
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Solstice Sky–A New England Winter Vision
Inspired, I snapped this enchantingly beautiful sky. Conversing with a friend in the Historic Town Center in Sudbury, Massachusetts I happened to look up and out, and was stopped in my tracks by the sky’s stunning beauty. New England offers such beautiful skies. Especially, I love the crisp and brilliantly clear night skies at this… Read more
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this Hellebore thinks It’s England, not NEW England
Winter Solstice Day I noticed this hellebore in my front garden. But it felt more like a discovery as it’s fully budded and this in not England where they bloom at this time of year. Because it was such an unusually warm day–50 degrees to start the day–I took the opportunity to cut back my… Read more