Flower Hill Farm Retreat

There Is No Place Like Home for the Winter

Carol Duke — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 15:20:19 +0000

During January, February, and the first week of March of last winter, I was surrounded by lovely people, tropical hummingbirds, butterflies, bright flowers, and the Caribbean Sea. A few days ago, when snow was falling all around Flower Hill Farm Retreat, I was not longing for the beauty and warmth of Treasure Beach, Jamaica. Being home is inspiring. The beauty […]

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A Frightfully Frigid Winter Interlude

Carol Duke — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:02:00 +0000

Winter is becoming a bit freaky across the country creating whirlwinds of bone-chilling chaos and disasters in many states. Here, icicles dangling like dangerous claws, can be likened to imaginary bars of winter’s bitter prison blocking healing warmth. Pruning will fill up much of February and March if days warm enough to hold pole clippers […]

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A Winter Focus ~ Cedar Waxwing Ornaments and Long Nights Moon

Carol Duke — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:37:00 +0000

The nakedness of winter’s landscape can sometimes seem cold and lonely, when suddenly, whoosh, all together in flight, a flash of fluttering life lifts the spirit high towards outermost tips of a beloved Black Cherry tree. Offering light and enchantment to the lucky viewer, a flock, an ‘ear-full’, a ‘museum’ of over sixty Cedar Waxwings […]

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A Late Autumn Palette Within A Community of Trees

Carol Duke — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 01:46:00 +0000

In thinking along the stream of thought inspired by Wendall Berry, I have been pondering ‘my place’ within my place and the community I am blessed to have membership in. I am speaking of the land, of the trees and shrubberies, of the species of butterflies and bees and birds that coexist here at Flower […]

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