A Time for Dreaming The joys of a winter gardener By Jim Dodson Two days before Halloween, I sat in my home office over the garage — I call it my “Tree House” — watching the swirling [...]
Hygge Hip The Danish aesthetic of organic materials, soothing things and coziness of the soul is the perfect way to usher in spring By Katy Erikson and Leslie Moore Jiggety-Jog. It’s cozy [...]
The Definition of Home An avid gardener blooms wherever he’s planted By Jim Dodson Not long ago I realized that we are already approaching our fourth spring in the charming midcentury bungalow [...]
The Garden Wagon Of dirt and a famous old road By Jim Dodson I call her The Pearl. She’s a 1996 vintage Buick Roadmaster Grand Estate station wagon — a true American land yacht with fake wood [...]
War and Peace in the Garden Even fighting off unwelcome invaders has its upside The war commenced not a week into the new year. This war is in my backyard’s unfinished Japanese garden, [...]
A Beautiful Holy Mess Nature’s wrath is also Nature’s gift By Jim Dodson Folks who know me will tell you that I’m a big fan of winter. Perhaps this is because I was born in the depths of winter [...]
Take Me Home By Jim Dodson At lunch with a group of friends not long ago, the conversation turned to guilty pleasures, those secret little self-indulgences we grant ourselves in private [...]
The Green Man Liveth By Jim Dodson When we lived in Maine, my witty wife used to say she always knew when spring was becoming summer because a large shrub would be passing the kitchen window on [...]
Funny how a new house can whisper in your ear, almost like in a dream. In our case, the house we purchased in Greensboro’s Old Starmount neighborhood last fall, a handsome brick and wooden [...]