Brooklyn — the best borough

This week brings the third blog-a-day challenge, category: maps. Come along for some cameos of our recent trip to New York and Pennsylvania. If you missed the past two posts, catch up here: Pittsburgh’s Sweetest Gals Foray into Philly Retracing our steps from...

A Foray into Philly

This week brings the second blog-a-day challenge, category: maps. Come along for some cameos of our recent trip to New York and Pennsylvania. If you missed yesterday’s post, catch up here. Moving back a day or so from Pittgsburgh found us in Philly for my...

Pittsburgh’s Sweetest Gals

This week brings the second blog-a-day challenge, category: maps. Come along for some cameos of our recent trip to New York and Pennsylvania. Starting with Pittsburgh, our last stop in a twelve-day trek from Westchester to Brooklyn to Philly before touching down in...

Transplants

Last spring we had the best kind of landscaper working with us: he really knew plants and was committed to transplanting everything we were digging up: the hosta takeover that was uprooting a path by the toolshed, the shade-loving astilbe that were never happy in our...

Where the Wild Things Weren’t

At the risk of incurring the wrath of every reader on earth, I’m going on record just the same: I never understood all the hooplah about Where the Wild Things Are. Yes, the book was a watershed breakaway from treacle of the Fifities. But I didn’t swoon over Wild...