George Eliot, pen name for novelist and poet Mary Anne Evans, captured my feelings when she explained, “Certain winds will make men’s temper bad.”

Curling stones are made of Blue Hone granite, which comes only from the island of Ailsa Craig off the coast of Scotland.

First come, first served. In the case of early bloomers, winter aconite might just be the first to come.

Nothing was truer for February than the proverb “when it rains, it pours.”

The animal was not at all on the fence about what needed to be done.

The landscape has its own language, and the names of the land tell a story of place.