The wind has returned, after a summer of unusual stillness. It’s clearly a fall wind, as the first of the leaves start to turn (only the...

I have two favorite fall flowers. The first is echineacea ­– purple cornflower – because it always makes me laugh, with its orange cone...

We have a new season in Calgary: summer-fall-winter. Yesterday was a beautiful summer day, today a raw and wet fall, and there’s snow...

I walked through the Reader Rock Garden with my mom and younger daughter, admiring the late summer blooms. It’s an old garden, long...