Garden Blog

Still think of you all the time, French. Lately, a lot. Someone else has your garden now. I’ve been gone over a year. I left… Read More »You

In 2012, French’s name was added to a prayer flag that a charity group brought to Mt. Everest Base Camp to honor people lost to… Read More »French went to Mt. Everest

Oops…someone exploded ten trillion leaves on the property. Here’s Carly with a tour.

French and Carly and Ellen spent many wonderful nights hanging out on the screen porch that leads out to the garden.  We’d talk for hours… Read More »The Porch

We made a little herb garden in the island area and Carly made cute signs on blackboards with a grease pen. Another reclamation project.

French threw some seeds in the ground and as usual, they mushroomed into super plants.

This is the song I sang at French’s funeral. He heard it about two weeks before he died and it wasn’t finished yet.  It was… Read More »A Song for French

Carly commissioned a huge letter F for French from an artist friend. It’s really beautiful and just another way we keep him around.

There was a new age ceremony that took place on the property in which the participants used a white pigeon to symbolically cleanse their energies.… Read More »The Pigeon

We have no clue how he did it, but French wrapped a log with twinkle lights and somehow lassoed it up in a tree to… Read More »Log Chandelier

We all love Hostas and will be adding another 30 or so this spring.  French liked to call them hosta-ices.  They’ll go in the island… Read More »Host-ices