Less than a week has gone by and I’m raring to stuff all the Christmas decor back into their various boxes, bins and tins and shlump the lot to the basement for storage. But, instead, we’ll keep everything up and twinkling for at least another few days. All the (step) kids and their kids are…
This is the time of year when certain choices have to be made for us residents of the Northern Hemisphere. Does one focus on powering through these briefest of daylight-sparse, energy-sapping days (the shortest of the entire year, to be precise) or fully embrace the largesse that might be offered by the longest nights of…
I guess everyone starts to look inward a little more during bleak winter months. With everything outside hidden under ice and snow, turning our attention inside just seems practical. There’s any number of ways to enjoy sun-drenched views without even leaving your couch. But it was just the other day that I realized how truly…
Leaves are pretty amazing things. Any plant that grows them appreciates their usefulness in their own way, of course. But dead leaves serve many purposes, too, including providing shelter over winter for insects that will work hard the next year as pollinators and predators to pests. But I didn’t realize that leaves just might be…
If it weren’t for evergreen plants our Canadian winters would play out like an old black and white movie. Tree bark and grasses are drained of colour–wet or frozen, outlined in snow and lit up by a steely sun. Unless, of course, you live on the far left edge of this country. Over there, everything…
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