Author Archives: colleenjmalone

On a late February day as I walked by the fish pond, I saw a blurry image and heard a familiar “PLOP!” I thought to myself, “A frog just jumped in the pond!!!” This is a sure sign of Spring! After last week’s thaw, the ice that had been covering the fish pond and theContinue reading “A Frog Just Jumped in the Pond!”

One spring day I was digging a new spot to plant daffodils. I had purchased a place in the woods with a few acres, and it was a great little spot. However, the people who had built it were not gardeners, and I started a lot of new beds while I was there. This particularContinue reading “The Garden Angel”

One day as I walked in the woods, I noticed a huge tree stump where an old tree had been cut down. In a perfect circle around that stump was a group of young trees. It was a beautiful image. The old, original tree was no longer present in the woods, but in the decomposingContinue reading “A Perfect Circle”