I miss you like a ton of bricks, minestrone soup, beans, fresh green beans, relish for Navy Bean Soup, entourage, dragon seeds, natives are it, lupus, alliums, penstemons, dicentra, yarrow, camassia, spirea, red twig dogwood, arborvitae, protea, bluefoot, diversity, elderberry, birds, oaks trees, acorns, they live on the weather that’s there, godetia, azalea, let the land tell you how it wants to be designed, plant bird seed, one of the reasons you want birds…, mugwort, filipendula, Queen Anne’s lace, phlox, turkeys, milkweed, butterflies, natives are designed to be the right size for critters around them, native orchids, northern blue flags, great blue lobelia, wild bergamot, blue asters, broadleaf sedge, bottlebrush, the magic of watching your flowers grow, bugs & bats & birds & bees, do you want to still breathe?, don’t you touch those trees – that’s an apartment complex, mushrooms, Halloween chicken trick, shrimp scampi & squash soup on the menu, native resources, there’s no Planet B for us to go to if this one doesn’t work out, it’s not a weed – it’s food for somebody, reluctance to try something that’s so old it’s new, lost knowledge, it’s not too late to plant a native, smart gardening, watch the bees buzz, when you get to be in that beauty it changes you, Haunt and Me and the Bee, gardening teaches you patience, something magical about caring for something else, enjoy your ragu.