gardening, outdoors

My neighbor’s hive

“The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.”― Henry David Thoreau I've never been sure who tends them. I suppose that someone does even though I'd like to imagine them coming and going from a hollowed-out tree on the hillside above our home. Wild honeybees are largely a thing of the past. Not… Continue reading My neighbor’s hive

recipes

Feel-better Tea

“I have been laid up with intentional flu.” Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-American film producer It doesn't seem quite fair. It's been sweltering in the 90s for days, but cold and flu season is already rocketing through area schools like an embarrassing text. Coughing. Bleary eyes. Hoarse voices. It's all here, at least for the youngest members… Continue reading Feel-better Tea