composerinthegarden

It has been a year for green so far – weekly wild storms have brought incessant rain, turning the garden and woods lush and green. Earlier this spring, we were having a tree trimmed away from t...

https://composerinthegarden.com/2024/06/01/the-green-deep-woods/

Spring drew on…and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.�...

https://composerinthegarden.com/2024/05/01/a-greenness-grew/

Is there a gardener living who doesn’t dream of what a new garden season can bring? Our long winter months in the American north encourage that dreaming. The sharp changes from warm to frozen a...

https://composerinthegarden.com/2024/04/14/garden-dreams/

We continue to have beautiful snowfalls followed by melt, thaw and freeze. On gray winter days, there is nothing more satisfying than gathering colorful pictures of the garden together to create ...

https://composerinthegarden.com/2024/02/02/playing-with-color/

Two years ago, on a bitterly cold January day, we brought sweet Pixie home, a 6 month old poodle puppy frightened because she had never been away from her first home before. She was reassured by ...

https://composerinthegarden.com/2024/01/28/a-pixie-anniversary/

We are just past the Winter Solstice here in the northern hemisphere – each day will now grow longer, bringing more light into our daily lives. It is not surprising that many holidays in Decemb...

https://composerinthegarden.com/2023/12/23/season-of-light/

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. ~John Burroughs We had a glorious autumn this year. Each day, the colors shifted from green to gold to russet a...

https://composerinthegarden.com/2023/12/06/the-beauty-of-letting-go/

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. ~Arthur Rubinstein (unverified) Slowly, the leaves are beginning to don their autumn cloaks of gold...

https://composerinthegarden.com/2023/10/21/a-garden-for-all-seasons/

On September 23, the light on this planet will achieve a moment of perfect balance, a moment when there is a period of equal light and darkness throughout the world. And then it will tilt on, eve...

https://composerinthegarden.com/2023/09/22/a-moment-of-balance/

We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it. ~Mary Oliver I stepped outside at dawn this morning to a tuneful chorus of birds in the trees above me. After days of torrential rain, ...

https://composerinthegarden.com/2023/07/04/life-in-a-garden/

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~Albert Einstein I’ve been deepening my friendship with the camera this past year and using it to discover the beauty in ...

https://composerinthegarden.com/2023/05/20/fascination-of-plants/

Here I wander in April Cold, grey-headed; and still to my heart Spring comes with a bound, Spring the deliverer, Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant . . . ~Robert Louis Stevenson True...

https://composerinthegarden.com/2023/04/30/here-i-wander-in-april/

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show. ~Andrew Wyeth My idea of winter sports has always been a g...

https://composerinthegarden.com/2023/02/03/embracing-winter/

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot I have always loved autumn, with its cooler tempera...

https://composerinthegarden.com/2022/11/05/delicious-autumn/

In the past, we have asked one thing of our gardens: that they be pretty. Now they have to support life, sequester carbon, feed pollinators and manage water. ~Doug Tallamy I went out in the garde...

https://composerinthegarden.com/2022/10/02/a-beautiful-habitat/