Category: Garden Parties & Entertaining
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Merry Christmas: Here’s to Planting the Seeds of Celebration
Several years ago my husband and I pruned off the old Christmas Eve celebration I’d participated in annually with my family. To some this may seem harsh, but I’m a gardener and am optimistic about such things, because change is good, and it almost always means growth and renewal in a garden. An unfinished felt…
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Entertaining from the Garden (and the Heart) with the Hands and the Head
Whenever my husband drives up from California, I make plans with as many people as I can because when he was a cook—and then a chef—this was entirely impossible. Now that we care for foster children, and he works out of state at a vineyard in California, this becomes even more of a challenge at…