The Color of Leaves
A message to leaves: It’s not easy being green…when purple, gold, and lime are so much flashier.
Halcyon Garden, March 29
Watch the Halcyon Garden unfold this season—stay tuned for April.
Garden Paparazza
Fun with Easy Macro and praying mantises
Cicadas Do Their Worst
The 13-year cicadas’ legacy: legions of mangled small trees, hearing loss, public humiliation, and quashed hubris I do not like the red-eyed beast. I do not like it in the least. I do not like it when I dine. I do not like it in my wine. I do not like it on my plants.…
Halcyon Garden Tour
A stroll through the Halcyon Garden on an early-April morning Come in the side gate, up a flagstone path that passes through a redbud and Japanese maple grove, and pass through a rusty metal arch covered with climbing hydrangea: Follow the flagstones as they curve left around the deck towards a circular brick patio. You’ll…
Spring in the ‘Hood 6
What’s blooming now in Nashville? Redbuds, cherry trees, phlox, & crabapple.
Autumn Gallery 2
We, the rustling leaves, have a voice that answers the storms, but who are you so silent? I am a mere flower. -Rabindranath Tagore, from “Stray Birds”
Autumn Photo Gallery
Autumn highlights in the Halcyon garden:
The Greenery 