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September Is the State of My Heart…perhaps yours, too.
Hello, September! How I love this month in the garden!! It’s never been quite so colorful and vibrant as it has this year–what a treat! And yet, the September garden still looks tired, gangly, tall in spirit, gloriously spent, happy, sparse, messy and abundant all at once. If ever a month depicted the state of… Continue reading
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Life Lately as a Gardener, Writer, and Mom
Since I wrote last the irses have bloomed in the garden, we’ve plucked a few fresh strawberries, the roses continue bountifully, and my “everything” flowerbed is filling out. Just yesterday morning I noticed the first blooms on one of my hollyhocks! The stalk is so bent over and so lopsided that the deep purple blooms… Continue reading
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Let’s Chat – Quitting Instagram, How I Approach Substack, and Where to Find My Stories
It’s been nearly four years since I gave up Instagram. You want to know my breaking point? One day while flipping through Stories, someone was talking passionately about gun control and then her next slide was about growing tomatoes. And the whiplash of gun control to tomatoes took me out. This, of course, wasn’t an… Continue reading
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Fall Haul: A Simple Collection of Celebrations & Crafts
A trendy fall means scarves and fall colors, cool weather, pumpkin spice lattes and a pumpkin patch to boot! But here at Green Fables I encourage you to celebrate fall in those simple ways that are right outside your door. There is no rushing. It’s letting those summer temps hang on if they want to… Continue reading
