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• AI Could Never Feel Grateful

  May 27, 2026 Things That AI Could Never Do – #12 in a series The world is topsy turvy in so many ways these days that my mind is saying ouch!  It brings a heaviness that surrounds us; and yet, the heart still finds a place for gratefulness.  This May day is filled with the…

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  butternut-squash, dalhias, flowers, gardening, guinea-fowl, homesteading, massachusetts

• Little Green Man

  June, 2025 I’ve been wanting to write about this little green man for some time now.  The green army man first showed up some years ago when I was digging in the front garden bed.  My trowel hit something unfamiliar and up came a little plastic army man with his feet fastened to a small…

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• A Tale of Two Flowers

  May 1, 2025 It is May Day, and the daffodils are having their day in the sun as well they should on this festival of spring. Over the years, I have accumulated many different varieties, and I’ve learned to plant both early and late bulbs so that the bloom time is extended. The planting usually…

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  cautionary-tale, daffodils, gardening, greek-myth, narcissus, spring

• Feels Like Spring

  April 22, 2025 On a spring day like today, I should be writing about the amazing progress that spring has been making as these April days unfold. The rains last night seem to have lit up the world in glorious shades of green. It is always amazing to see the brown stubbled and beaten down…

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  april, flowers, gardening, hope, lexington, nature, patriots, peach-tree, rhubarb, spring, wild-cherry

• Seed Planting Time

  March 24, 2025 It is late March and the natural world here in Massachusetts is slowly awakening from dormancy. I say slowly because March is generally a two-step forward, one step back kind of month. We might say that today is two steps back from the warming sunshine of yesterday. The temperature is in the…

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  gardening, heirlooms, homesteading, kale, march, seed-starting, weather