Category: outdoors

  • Just wrapped up six days of hiking on the islands surrounding Stockholm. They weren’t tough days; we didn’t log more than 9 miles on any given day, but it’s a couple decades since I logged these kinds of miles several days in row. I’m thanking all of the Nia dance practice in the past year,…

  • A little over two years ago, Craig Cherry planted three fruit trees on the west side of our house and has been patiently training the emerging branches onto espalier wires so they’ll grow in the narrow space. We were excited to see the peach tree this week with the first blossoms since it was planted.…

  • Last summer, I took a stem cutting from a neighbor’s beautiful climbing white rose, dipped the stem in rooting powder, stuck it in a little soil in a clear plastic takeout container, watered it, put the lid on (key to maintaining the moist environment starts need) and set it in a window. It grew roots…