Category: Antiques
Ken-Do Attitude
Time to prepare garden for cold weather
On the Mid-Shore (USDA growing zone 7b), November is the transitional month for gardeners. Our area is shifting from fall and slowly toward winter. Now is the time to prepare your garden for cold weather, while still being able...
Sweet Simplicity
Is calendar asking you to slow down?
November has a way of asking us to slow down. The air turns crisp, the days grow shorter, and nature itself begins to rest. Yet for many of us, this season can feel like anything but restful — calendars fill up, to-do lists get...
Gardening Tips
Evergreen Magnolia always in fashion
The Evergreen Magnolia is a wonderful tree for all seasons! It blooms in the spring with fragrant, creamy 8-12 inch white flowers and often continues to bloom through the summer. It has decorative cone-like pods that release...
Antique Discovery
History of the soup tureen
(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) Recently, I was in a rather grand museum, Winterthur, in Wilmington, Del., and found myself in a hall of soup...
