And, like the song goes, "to reminisce with my old friends."  When I heard about VP from Veg Plotting's meme asking for our top three to five dinner party choices, I simply had to join in. For mine, I perused my bookshelves, and I believe I've assembled an interesting list. First, I choose Russell Page.  He wrote The Education Of A Gardener (New York Review Books Classics) the year I was born, 1962, but the writing is as fresh as yesterday. We could all discuss the great country gardens he designed and all of the famous people he met over his long life. Second, how could any garden party, especially one situated in my rose garden, be complete without Graham Stuart Thomas?  Although he is best known as a rosarian, Thomas was so much more.  In my opinion, one of his best books is Colour in the winter garden, written...

"My personal endeavour is so to choose and combine my plants that at no time from early March to November shall the garden be without a number of lovely pictures, each complete in itself, and that such sections of the borders are as temporarily out of bloom shall be so constructed that their fullness and freshness shall be maintained by luxuriant and beautiful foliage." from Color in My Garden: An American Gardener's Palette, by Louise Beebe Wilder I'm still working on it, but I love the idea.  Garden Bloggers Muse Day is brought to us each month by Carolyn Gail at Sweet Home and Garden Chicago.  Thanks Carolyn.

Well, the sun is now shining, but earlier this week, we had winter moisture in nearly all of its frozen forms.  On Monday, while I was driving to pickup children all over metropolitan OKC, we got a lot of sleet and fog which then turned into black ice.  Driving was simply a nightmare, and I saw many cars crashed on the side of the highway.  In fact, I slid through an intersection myself.  It was that dangerous.  Monday night we had snow which made my youngest child, Miss Bear, overjoyed.  Her siblings were also doing the happy dance because their schools were closed. In central Oklahoma, we don't get many snow and ice opportunities.  Some years, we get three or four snow events.  Other years, no snow at all.   It is even more rare for us to have enough snow to sled.  When Bear woke Tuesday morning, she opened the...