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William Morrow
(2017-04-04)
400 pages
ISBN: 978-0062499950

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Hello Dahlia!

March 6, 2017 by Ellen Herrick

Dahlias, darling

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Filed Under: Blog, Cape Cod, dahlias, England, flowers, roses, Spring, The Forbidden Garden, The Sparrow Sisters, writing Tagged With: Cape Cod, dahlias, England, flowers, garden, Spring, The Forbidden Garden, writing

Hats Off

June 24, 2011 by Ellen Herrick

We are not necessarily hat people in my family.  Except in the summer, of course.  I mean, we care about our heads, we just don’t particularly care to adorn them.  But, when I noticed that David’s lovely, smooth head was starting to speckle like a quail egg, I hauled out the hats.  While the chic beach goers can be seen in broad, elegant straw hats I am most often found under a cricket hat.  I have a beautiful straw hat given to me by my friend.  Every time I wear it people comment and give me the thumbs up.  My friend wears hats year round as needed.  In the summer she has a perfectly-proportioned buttermilk colored straw hat with a broad black ribbon around the crown.  When we went to Nantucket just before Christmas she bought us both cashmere cloches.  My friend looked like a 1920s French gamin in hers.  I looked like a penis in mine. No really.  Anyway, the cricket hat.  You know how they look, right?  Bright white and stiff brimmed, pristine and evocative of long lazy afternoons, green grass and Pimm’s Cup.

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Filed Under: Cape Cod, flowers, roses Tagged With: cricket hats, flowers, garden, hats, rain

Spring

April 21, 2011 by Ellen Herrick

James

I am in a state of longing.  Spring is such a near thing and yet, this morning, the little pot of ivy I left out is rimmed in frost.  Frost!  I rub salt into my homesick wound by checking the London weather on my computer dashboard: 75 all week.  I squeeze lemon into my emotional paper cut by watching the Kings Road web cam obsessively.  I can see the school children in their woolly jumpers and tidy lines serpentine along the footpath on their way between playing fields and classrooms.  For a moment I am sure I see my own in that line.  Perhaps it’s because my photographs of that time are so blurry?

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Filed Under: London, mother, mothering, Spring Tagged With: garden, gardening, graduation, lilacs, mother, peony

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