Harvest Moon, Hunter’s Moon

Grange Gardener! Well, isn’t the season winding down, though? And I am winding up my garden hoses. Thought of you on the Harvest Moon in September, wasn’t it beautifully enhanced by smoke in the atmosphere? Southern California firesmoke drifts all the way up here. Distress in one place leads to beauty in another… every stick […]

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A Shetland-Type Shawl

A SHETLAND-INSPIRED SHAWL A shawl so fine it could pass through a wedding ring the stuff of faerie tales, and the defining characteristic of a true Shetland shawl! Actually, though, I’ve seen it done:  my sons sitter, Missy Moses, had a little round Scottish grandmother with a cedar chest that held just such a shawl, […]

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