Tag: summer

Of course, you worry a lot. You worry that Donald Trump is president of the United States and that about 38 percent of the people, including almost all of the Republicans, support this lying liar.

The Berkshire District Attorney’s Office asks the public to be vigilant in reporting suspected child abuse and neglect.

When they are attractive, we call them wildflowers, but whatever their common name, they can be a nuisance.

I am here to remind you if you can’t listen to the Boston Symphony Orchestra live while picnicking on the lawn at Tanglewood, you can still picnic on a lawn somewhere and perhaps even listen to a BSO concert.

I do feel that I have a special relationship with hummingbirds. Sometimes during the summer, while watering the garden, they have danced in the spray from the hose, even coming almost up to the nozzle.

Melons and summer and winter squashes trumpet their yellow- to orange-hued blossoms and set fruit. Their leaves form a floating green carpet.

There is so much information to digest and respond to in the expanse of a mid-summer garden.

The foot-tall growth bisecting the field narrowed 8 feet with each pass, an unmistakable semaphore signaling the whole delightful thing was too quickly winding down.

Rows of vigorous fall-planted garlic have anchored the garden with their lush foliage, superseded only by perennial rhubarb that thrived even when its leaves were snow-covered on May 12.

Among the late summer bloomers in my landscape are a fragrant heirloom phlox, Japanese anemone, Oswego tea, Russian sage and New York ironweed, all perennials.

Heading into yet another important election cycle, the midterms, it’s vital that we as individuals investigate for ourselves what a candidate’s ‘true colors’ might be based not on promises or expressed rhetoric.

Shades of past lives, slim in the shadows, they sway slightly in the hot summer breeze.

The rain, the sight of the Sun at the top of the sky, the quickened greening of the earth and the press of crops ready for harvest pull us into the rising tide of the growing season.

We have properties offered by Stone House Properties, Brandon White of Cohen+White Associates, Elisabeth Wheeler of Lance Vermeulen, Kreston Johnson and Barney Stein of Lance Vermeulen.

Decks and patios are special summer spaces in properties offered by Helen Mullany of Helen Mullany Real Estate LLC, Anita Schilling of William Pitt Sotheby's International Realty, Suzann Ward of Barnbrook Realty, George Cain of William Pitt Sotheby's International Realty, Thom Garvey of Cohen+White Associates and Nancy K Kalodner of Cohen+White Associates.

In my backyard, undiscriminating addiction is gutting our children, neighbors, families.