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Raise your hand if you love historical fiction! Me, too, dear reader, and we’re not alone. This popular genre has re-emerged in recent years, and the book market is brimming with all kinds of offerings: Victorian romances, World War II spy thrillers, 1920s crime, and supernatural mysteries in just about any time period. There’s something… Read More »Historical Fiction Hurray!

At Historic Waynesborough Besides my home garden, I help tend the kitchen garden at Historic Waynesborough, the house museum where I’m a volunteer. Kitchen gardens were an essential of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century life, especially in areas where people had little or no access to street markets. Depending on the number of mouths needing to be… Read More »More Plots…

“Novels and gardens,” she says. “I like to move from plot to plot.”― Bill Richardson, Bachelor Brothers’ Bed & Breakfast A garden, like a book, has a story to tell, but its story is never truly finished, for as every digger knows, a garden is an eternal work in progress. Shovel something in, yank something out, weed,… Read More »Plot to Plot