Gardening

  References to one’s “salad days,” it seems, began with Shakespeare when he wrote it in a line for Cleopatra who...

Rainshadow contributor Ann Candioto relishes in the end of winter and the start of gardening season. Lately I’ve been thinking about a T-shirt, grey of...

                                                                           Yes, one sees them now in supermarkets, bright red, big-bosomed fruits piled high in plastic boxes luring us to a summer fantasy...

                                                 A spider stick is any handy light branch or stem which you have stripped of its leaves and twigs, cut to three feet or...

We have had a rather dark and stormy autumn here in the rainshadow; a good deal of the autumn color has been torn from...

When television first came to our neighborhood in the early 50’s there was a puppet on the Howdy Doody Show whose name was Princess...

Beverley Nichols, born 1898, was a reporter and author, in a variety of genres, in post WWII, mid-century Britain.  He was something of a...

“The enemies of peas are few in number, but great in power. Chopped gorse sown with                the seed will prevent the ravages of mice,...

it is now mid-spring and I am in a familiar dilemma: staying ahead of myself. Gardening is a reciprocal relationship, I do...