Hecate

Last night, I had dinner (on the porch in spite of the record-breaking heat here in the mystical MidAtlantic! Of course, we did have shade,...

David Salisbury asked for some pictures of my garden. I'm the world's worst photographer and I'm always too busy to run inside...

I woke up this morning aware that we're only a few weeks out from Litha, the longest day of the year. Here in my corner of the myth-cra...

May it be so for you.

I have a great job and I love it. And I may as well say this on the night of a Full Moon as any other night. I worked my ass off, teaching ...

Like Theodora Goss , I try to post something every day . Yesterday, Blogger was bloggered and wouldn't let me post, and I'm gratefu...

It's been a cold, wet Spring so far, here in the mercurial MidAtlantic. That weather pattern has its own gifts, but does make sunshine ...

I have friends who are world travelers; there's so much that's wonderful about ranging all over this perfect planet and experiencing...

A while back, John Michael Greer wrote, "The good times aren't coming back." He was talking about the good economic and life...

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Landscape Guy came over yesterday to walk the garden with me and make plans for this year. It's hard to believe that we began working t...

Being a grandma and a Witch isn't exactly a well-covered topic, not in today's world and not w/r/t young children. That's all I...

First crocus of the year. At least two weeks ahead of last year. All of last year, the garden was two weeks ahead of the year before. Not...

We're here in this bursting period between Imbolc and Ostara, one of the most dynamic sections of the Wheel of the Year. The "Sun ...

When I have time, nothing says "Sunday" to me as clearly as the chance to do some cooking for the coming week. I work a lot of ho...

Every garden is based on affinity for and knowledge of the ground, on true intimacy and kinship with your home soil that comes not only from...

The ground's been covered with snow for the last few weeks, which is actually good for the garden, but difficult for this gardener. It ...

It began to snow heavily here within the last couple of hours and I've been out on the porch every couple of minutes, simply watching an...

I can almost feel Imbolc stirring itself from deep inside my Mother and beginning to rise through the root-chilling red clay and rock-hard f...

Margaret Roach, who blogs at A Way to Garden , has an amazing slideshow of conifers, perfect trees at any time of year, but especially so d...