The spirit is willing, and the fresh is weekly: Review of “A Year on the Garden Path”

February 28th, 2010 admin

For the past few weeks, I’ve been watching the snow drift down with deceptive lightness, only to accumulate in deep piles (18″ and counting here in northeastern Ohio) that have well and truly buried any remotely green thing on the ground. While it’s lovely to sit inside and watch winter’s show, I also find myself reaching for the seed catalogs. Winter may not depress me as it does some people, but now and again I long for…


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