Tag: Vashon Island
Home Orchard: Best Way to Water Trees Slowly
Summer comes and goes in the Pacific Northwest with nary a drop of rain. It's Seattle's best kept secret. Our summers are Miami's winters....
Spring in My Step: Putting Hibernation to Bed
Fresh start: honeycomb, pea vines, and a little luck...The robins, crows, tree frogs and barred owls, raucous little alarm clocks that they are, have sounded...
Knitting Up an Awesome Bulldog
I like surprises, not the kind that make you pee in your pants, and seek therapy and tubs of Haagen Dazs, but the sort that delight...
Christmas Lights, Madrona Trees, and a Cordless Phone
One of my favorite Christmas traditions is to install flood lights at the base of my century-old madrona trees. The underlit behemoths put on...
Vashon Halloween: Ghouls, Goblins and Cutiepies
Vashon Islanders take their celebrations seriously, in a non-serious sort of way. Halloween is no exception. On Friday, town was closed to cars, and...
Ten Life Lessons from September
Good morning friends, school's back in session, and as part of my continuing education (and unrepentant need to show off), I'm eager to share...
Flirting With the Supermoon
The laughter and conversations of an evening well spent still reverberated in my head as I drove home. Bright lights on, my truck trundled...
Life Lessons From the Month of July
As an admirer of Joseph Campbell, I've always loved an axiom he shared in one of his early essays, "Why would you fish for...
Good Morning, Fourth of July!
Awaiting the arrival of the mini-hydroplanes, I'm on the porch with Boz. It's 5:28 a.m. and while I can't see the little waterborne wasps,...
5 Things I Learned This Week: Entry 1
Lesson 1: Early mornings can be magical.
The clock reveals an early hour, and yet I feel rested. Birds court through song. Boz snores deeply...
