The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

Ah...  how could anyone resist   John Lewis Childs' Fall Bulb Catalog?   We plant them because they can be awesome!  I lov...

Dreadful, aren't they?   I wonder how many exist today.  I suspect they have fallen prey to mice, or just fallen apart.   But so much w...

Y ou can't beat a lithographed catalog for luxuriant surfaces. Your attention can slide down the sweeps of color, twirl around a cu...

   G oodness...  What can I say?   The poet's own phrase "necromancy keen" sort of sums this poem up! ...

T hese bits and pieces turned up when I was looking for pumpkin pie poems.     They belong  together!             ... 1891 -...

I enjoyed reading  Clarissa Potter's memories of her childhood at the end of the instructions. Being a little " maker " is t...

T his classic 19th century morality tale centered around a muskmelon seed bag was written in 1890 by a 14 year old girl, Adele R. ...