What we can confirm about the month that leads us into 2026? Well, it was cold! Really cold this year. And that can be a good thing for our dear friend Mother Nature. She, like all of us, seems to flourish and find strength when the going gets a little difficult. Chip...
When I realize that the year is behind us and a new one, oh so shiny, is coming around the corner and I completely found myself pedaling uphill on keeping my lovelies, you!, informed...well, that tells you the kind of craziness the holiday season brought to us...
Sweater weather! Kind of. October was a glorious hodgepodge of warmer days than expected and then a hint of the chill to come. It allowed all of us to still be out of doors and turning our faces up to the rays of the sun. Then as the day turned into dusk, throw a...
As August bid adieu all of our attentions began to lean into the changes and beginnings that September whispers in our ears... I can remember how excited that I was always to go back to school. For me, not the chance to shop for clothes, but the chance to buy blank...
We are beginning to truly understand the French escaping to their secret places in August! That "almost" month. And now, here it is, the beginning. Though it is true that you have a couple of weeks to stretch it out. Especially since tomatoes, corn, squash, just dug...
July was as July should be, right? Summer is hot and humid with crazy afternoon thunderstorms. I do so love Mother Nature and her take-charge attitude. The days stretch out so long. I can picture all of you on porches watching the sunset. On beaches, digging your toes...
The month of June! Truly the time when all of our Summer brainwaves start kickin' in.Schools letting out and parents carting carloads of kids and belongings up to Camp.Upper East Siders heading out or up to Summer houses.Baseball in full swing. Arts Festivals and open...
A Universal Month of flurry! Graduations everywhere, High School, Colleges, Graduation Schools. All of that jubilation...relief, exhaustion. Satisfaction. Pride. Fulfillment. We have the unparalleled privilege of participating in a Graduation that gives all of us a...
There are a lot of things about Spring that makes us all a little giddy.
That first afternoon when you have to drape your jacket over your arm because the warmth from the sun was just so.
The increasing desire to stop for a soft-serve cone.
In like a lion and out like a lamb?? I am not so sure about that! But we did have very cold and windy rains, teased by "hey, it is almost Spring!" days. Tulips and daffodils are popping out of the ground. Cherry Blossoms and Redbud trees are just everywhere showing...