While my companions all looked up, I gazed to the ground.

It might have been a domestic disaster. This is a good news-bad news kind of garden story.

Robin Wall Kimmerer, self-described "mother, scientist, decorated professor and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation," wrote the book on moss.

It was cause for shell-ibration, if not rapture, when I found a special shell on an Island beach.

Hyacinths are funny flowers; big, bold and exaggerated.

It was a poignant moment when Davis Solon shared that he wished he had had more time with Kent Healy to learn about the ins and outs of creating a cut and opening Tisbury Great Pond.