Tag: flowers
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Spring’s Persistence Pays Off
Today is May Day, and the blustery winds off Lake Superior are doing their best to prevent Spring from fully showing herself. Patience must be a virtue when waiting for Spring in northern Minnesota. We are well into April before the first colorful signs appear. A world in miniature comes alive as the longer days…
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Gardener’s Mecca in Minnesota: An Illustration of the “Why”
Along a lonely stretch of highway, near the small town of Zim, Minnesota, one can find a little piece of heaven for gardeners. Byrns Greenhouse is unassuming from the road, but as you pull in the driveway (or park along the shoulder of the highway on the typically busy weekends) and make your way toward…
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Cooking With Fiori di Zucca
The seasonal fiori di zucca dishes offered when we traveled to Italy a few summers ago were some of my favorite food memories! Each restaurant prepared them slightly differently, and my husband found a little grocery in Rome which had the delicate flowers delivered in the mornings, providing an opportunity for him to attempt making…
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Random Acts of Kindness: The Travel Edition
Traveling during the holidays is not always smooth sailing. Everyone else is traveling, too. Lines are long, days can be longer. Family relations may be stretched to their limit. And the people who work for the travel businesses and services during this often-stressful time of year may receive the brunt of travelers’ short tempers. Something…
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Female Friendships: Keeping Me Afloat in the Sea of Testosterone
I love my husband. I love my teenaged boys. Thank goodness for my female friendships. These were my thoughts as I drove home from book club this evening. In my rather unscientific study of the subject of the differences between men and women, undertaken while raising two boys and enjoying over 20 years of marriage to…
Travel. Garden. Eat. 