Flower Hill Farm Retreat

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 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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A Late Autumn Palette Within A Community of Trees

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

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Light and Leaves At Play In A Bright Autumn Landscape

Carol Duke — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 17:01:00 +0000

It has been a gorgeous fall with leaves clinging to the trees far longer than I recall in recent years. The rain has held off, but the trees are slowly releasing their leaf fasteners and hundreds of their leafy members, like golden rain, are falling with the gentlest of breezes throughout the dry days and […]

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