gardening | gardening
Jun.17.2013
During Roman times, lavender was used to perfume bathing water. The Latin word, Lavandula means, "to wash". The Romans also started the art of topiary, the creative pruning of plants, which they used lavender for, as well as rosemary and juniper. After Rome fell, the art of cultivating gardens fell...
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Jun.08.2013
June 8
Enclosed Space
In the echo chamber it is the cymbals which cause the most pain. The drums resound, deep and loud, but it is the crashing of brass that drives me wild. Cotton wool and sealing wax can not put my head at ease. Resonate walls with their...
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Jun.05.2013
Seventeen years ago−the last time the Periodical Cicadas reared their creepy, red-eyed heads−I was living in New York City. I’ve existed, my entire life, unaware of this species of critter. All that has changed. Now I live in New Jersey, and when I heard that the cicadas “were coming,” I had...
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Jun.01.2013
Do you understand the purpose of your medical tests? Are they screening or diagnostic? Learn to decode the results in Health Matters with Health professional, Heather Brittany.
When spring has sprung and the gardening bug has bitten you, it’s essential to follow a few tried and true...
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Jun.01.2013
Do you understand the purpose of your medical tests? Are they screening or diagnostic? Learn to decode the results in Health Matters with Health professional, Heather Brittany.
When spring has sprung and the gardening bug has bitten you, it’s essential to follow a few tried and true rules...
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May.04.2013
Spring has finally staggered and stumbled into Cincinnati. It’s been a whole week and a half since I wore my heavy coat, so I finally can take it to the cleaners. A less rewarding chore presents itself—it’s time to maintain the outside of my house.
I admire those who love yard work, but I...
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Apr.29.2013
It's that time of year again when all my good neighbors are out in their gardens, making our neighborhood a lovely, colorful, vibrant place to live.
And then there's me.
I consider it my duty to make my neighbors feel better about themselves. Yes, their tulips may not be the biggest...
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Apr.07.2013
I spent the day cleaning the yard. Cutting down the grasses that my wife always let me burn in the rickety fire pit we've kept year after year. Stupid thing has three legs but you'd never know it. It leans so far to one side it looks like an upside down R2D2. The old fire pit. On its last legs, as...
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Mar.30.2013
March 30
Catalog of Growth
The right seed in the right season grows a garden of miracles for me. I get the food for my table or the stores for winter, sometimes when I’m in a Jack like predicament, right planted seeds can provide a bean stalk of...
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Mar.02.2013
Biltmore Garden Peace Rose (Photo credit: zen)
For the first time in our married lives, Thomas and I have a house, and we love it. I could write a blog just about all benefits of living in a house versus living in a condo, one of the biggest being that my kids now have a fenced yard where they can...
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