Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

I am reviewing a new book today but first wanted to outline the pleasures and dangers of late-night reading on the Fourth of July weekend. I...

It began with a June 19 Facebook post by artist Linda Anne Lopez of Winchester, Virginia. Linda and I met several times over the years. She...

  Photos of the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home Museum  in Savannah (building in center). It was closed to visitors on the day we were ...

Lone Hollyhock My version: Only one stalk this year. Hollyhock rises among the bachelor buttons and coreopsis. Elbows its way up, beefy ...

My fall yesterday caused no lasting damage to my poor body. Strange. From the street, it must have looked like a comedy routine. A spider we...

June normally would see me outside coaxing my tomato seedlings. But this year, I’ll leave the gardening to others. We are giving our house, ...

On May 29, I wrote about Eudora Welty’s garden in Mississippi, prompted by a post from another Mississippian and musician Jason Burge. In Ma...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the intersection of writers and gardening . I mentioned that Flannery O'Connor's Andalusia in Milledg...

A Facebook post by musician, Mississippian, and one-time Wyomingite Jason Burge caused me to go on a tour of writers' gardens. Jason sho...

What better place to celebrate Earth Day at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens on Saturday, April 22, 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m.?  Tour the Conservatory, e...

It’s mid-April and we’re experiencing our usual schizoid mix of warm days in the 70s interrupted by bursts of snow and cold. Humans are conf...

Saturday morning round-up Watched the first hearing Thursday night of the Jan. 6 Insurrection Committee. Compelling television. I'm not ...

Fun fact for Arbor Day:  There are now 99 elms encircling the CSU Oval and lining its walkways. So reports an April 2022 story on Colorado S...

This April 6 WyoFile post brings us more good news about global warming: Wyoming botanist Trevor Bloom spotted his first springtime bloom...

CBS Sunday Morning was all about food and drink. An historic Mexican cafe in San Bernardino, a Yemini coffee speakeasy, the origin of Ranch...

The garden has been winterized and the bulbs are in the ground. A pretty good year for tomatoes and Purple Podded Pole Beans, which I keep g...