Curly White Pine

 I love finding a new plant or tree that you normally don't see.

The curly white pine is the Willy Wonka of trees.

First Signs

How often have you heard it said, "Oh, it passed the time anyway."

As if time didn't pass quickly enough.

Sad really, for, as Benjamin Franklin said,

"Do not waste time, for that is the stuff life is made of"

Fall on the Metolious

 Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter. 

 ~Carol Bishop Hipps, "October," In a Southern Garden, 1995