Plantings and cut flowers in shade

A fantastical arrangement

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…

Distillery District at Night

The longest night

Today is labelled the shortest day of the year. But wouldn’t it be way more fun spending these few, fleeting hours of sappy sunlight savouring the anticipation of the longest night of the year? After all, back in the day (I’m talking a couple thousand years ago), the winter solstice was celebrated as the turning…