“Pull back the frosty veil of Winter to reveal the virginal face of Spring.”  -Kim Sweeney   It’s official!  Spring is here!  Gardeners rejoice as the warming sun and longer days have catapulted the landscape into the season of…

Shoots and tendrils surge forth from the warming soil, stretching and extending towards the sky where the sun would soon embrace them in her benevolent arms.  The once vacant trees grow wispy with buds and delicate tufts of color.  The landscape seems…

  As the sun began to sink, its golden rays draped along the tree tops and rooftops, gilding everything in its lofty wake.  The underbelly of the clouds steeped in the fading light, blushed and smoldered as the day bid farewell to the night. …

I’d never been much of a rose fan, save for the idea of heirloom roses growing against a cobbled wall in an English garden.  Other than that, they seem a bit pretentious and riddled with issues, hardly worth my time…