GARDEN PHYLLISOPHY – January 2011
By Phyllis Galowitz It’s 14 degrees at the warmest part of this middle of December day. The birds don’t seem to mind the cold. They’re happily flitting from one port to the other on the bird feeder, while the blue jay fills himself from the suet cake perched on top of a flower pot. Black-capped [...]
GARDEN PHYLLISOPHY – November 2010
By Phyllis Galowitz
It’s a late afternoon in the middle of October when I’m taking my usual walk along Route 28. The sugar maples in front of my house are completely bare, but the birches, late in getting their leaves in the spring, have held on to them long after the other trees are mere skeletons.
CHA CHA HUT OPENS
By Phyllis Galowitz
Cherie and Frank Davis have officially opened the CHA CHA HUT in Hogan’s back room. The smells emanating from the smoker in the backyard are tantalizing . . .
GARDEN PHYLLISOPHY – November 2009
By Phyllis Galowitz
The early frost on September 20th, and then on Columbus Day weekend, ended the dahlias’ bloom.
GARDEN PHYLLISOPHY – May 2009
By Phyllis Galowitz
Spring is here at last but this year my garden will have to be self-sufficient. I will be having surgery on my spine, where the nerves have been causing pain in my right leg and keeping me from being able to do what I love to do.