. This summer has been a roller coaster of excitement, panic, energy, exhaustion, confidence and doubt – all stemming from co-authoring my first book. While I’ve always wanted to write a book, I never thought it would really happen. But earlier this year everything changed when Roger Waynick at Cool Springs Press contacted Susan Morrison [...]
. When I was a small child, my grandfather used to say “Easter time is the time for eggs…and the time for eggs is Easter time!” That was one of my favorite of his funny little sayings…. . While hiding Easter Eggs for her younger cousins, my daughter (who’s really taken an interest in photography [...]
. . I must have walked around this show for hours, snapping photos of all the gardens because when I came home I had close to 800 pictures! One thing I noticed was that I tend to take pictures of small portions of the gardens which really caught my eye. I rarely have a photo [...]
. . Warning: This is not your mother’s typical garden shop….this has got to be one of the coolest, most inspiring places I’ve ever been! . This is Artefact Design and Salvage, located at the Cornerstone Gardens in Sonoma, California, and it’s just the thing to clear out the cobwebs of Winter and kick-start your [...]
. It’s January here in Northern California and today I ate the first (of many) oranges off my ‘Washington Navel’ tree…. . I LOVE that first, sweet-with-a-faint-hint-of-sour-taste the season’s first orange gives me…I look forward to it all year, beginning in late Spring when my garden is literally blanketed with the scent of it’s heavenly [...]