Category: Ken-do

Ken-Do Attitude

Be mindful of ground temperatures, too

Welcome to National Gardening Month! It is said that April showers bring May flowers, but Mother Nature had a different idea this year. March brought on spring early and many flowers and trees have already finished blooming....

Sweet Simplicity

Simple lessons learned from pandemic

This time of year tends to render me slightly nostalgic as the spring weather begins to remind me of that day in March, four years ago, when the world seemed to change in an instant. We stayed home from school and work, wore...

Gardening Tips

Spicebush Viburnum blooms in April

Some plants have it all, spring flowers, summer foliage, fall color and winter interest. The Viburnum carlesii, or the Spicebush Viburnum is a lovely deciduous shrub with silver gray branches that spread out near the ground and...

Antique Discovery

‘The Brownie’ able to make photography accessible

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) Photography has a long history of trial and error, experimentation of materials, many different camera styles, and...