I've suddenly become entranced by acorns. Maybe it's because I've been seeing so many types and forms of them on sale in the sh...

Over the past year, on our jaunts, we pass a nearby stand of bittersweet. All year long, we watch to see how it is faring and recently, I n...

When we moved here almost 25 years ago, this quaint covered bridge was part of the short cut to the only grocery store at the time, in Mount...

It seems that I haven't been at the torch for months. Although I made the little jogs in the last post not all that long ago, I was sor...

What a surprise! I took a break and sat down at the torch. I was inspired by the photographs we took for Tina's new book, The Essential...

We went to visit a friend last evening, and one of the things we did was to tour her garden by candle light. I wish my camera would have be...

The last month will be the September to remember - not that there haven't been other memorable Septembers, but this one was a doozey! It...

Yesterday, we started out bright and early for a day as vendors in Lebanon at a Master Gardeners' symposium. The sky was like a paintin...

A pictorial today - of some of the things we see while on our soap deliveries through Amish country in Lancaster County. We were waiting at ...

Our son is home from grad school for the weekend and it seems that we have developed a tradition of going in to Saturday's Central Mark...

Some of our soaps will be perennially popular. Lavender, for example is a constant best seller. We are always refining our line of soaps - ...

When we have a "soap day" around here, it really means a good 24 hours of time. First we decide which soaps are needed and we pre...

And the harvest goes on. Many of our soaps are "just for pretty", but some of our soaps are more practical. Happy Wanderer is on...

Along with all the vegetables loading our harvesting baskets this time of year, there are some special ingredients we need to stock up on fo...

While we're at it, cucumbers seem to be producing at an all time rate around here and I'm running out of ways to use them! I asked m...

If you're growing them, you're trying to find something to do with them or you will be soon. If you aren't, you may start findin...

So, I said I'd show you what I did on the torch last week when the weather was so temperate. I made a few other things, but this set is ...

Look what I harvested today! Last fall one week, we played hooky from "our" market and visited another nearby market. Lo and beho...

This should be from Cinco de Mayo, but these beads only appeared in the past few days, so ... better late than never! I started out with an ...

I'm excited about this! I've seen Baltimore Orioles on very rare occasions here in our yard, usually at the top of our big old syca...