Margaret Hartley
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Greenpoint: With fall in the air, turkeys everywhere
The leaves haven’t changed yet, but there are other undeniable signs that fall is here. The songbirds are gone, the turkeys are flocking, the gardens are winding down. We try to time plantings to be… → Read More
Greenpoint: Suffering from enviro-depression
When the Bootleg wildfire started in southern Oregon a couple weeks ago, I started checking smoke conditions in Bend, where my nephew and his family live. Last year, right around the time their baby… → Read More
Greenpoint: Fall didn’t put on much of a show this year
For leaves that turn red, the weather’s been all wrong → Read More
Greenpoint: The end of the garden, the start of stew season
Since the frost, the house is full of baskets of vegetables that need to be sorted, frozen, canned or stored. → Read More
Greenpoint: Small steps not enough in climate change battle
Turn off the lights and carpool, sure, but more is needed → Read More
Greenpoint: Light fading, but garden’s growing still going
I wouldn’t be surprised if we go deep into October before a freeze → Read More
Greenpoint: Welcome to the season of squash
I think I’ve picked all the delicatas, those yellow and green stripers that are the earliest of the winter squashes → Read More
Greenpoint: Getting into the water just as summer fades
My son bought himself a kayak in July, and got to take it out a few times before he left for his first year at college. We’d been meaning to get one for years, to take advantage of all the water around us in a simple way. There’s something perfect about a kayak — how you’re low in the water, how you can get into the coves and inlets, how you can be quiet in the middle of a lake to take in the… → Read More
Greenpoint: Sure, skip the straw — and the cup and the bag
What other single-use items can you eliminate from your life? → Read More
Step outside and enjoy these summer days
I walked the dog a little earlier than usual one morning last week, and it was dark enough that I had to pull out my safety vest. The ducks woke up from their night coop as we passed and quacked to be let out, but there are foxes around so they have to stay in until it’s really daylight. I told them to go back to bed. The moon was up, waning gibbous, and the road was silent. Well, silent until… → Read More
Greenpoint: Snow on snow (on snow): The bleak mid-March
Since I wrote about spring and gardens and planting things two weeks ago, we’ve had nothing but snow. Not that a snowstorm in March is unusual — I remember my daughter’s disappointment in kindergarten when a blizzard closed school on St. Patrick’s Day, delaying her day of green crayons, green sparkles and green cupcakes. But three major storms in two weeks is, well, kind of a lot. Because the… → Read More
Greenpoint: Garden season begins with seeds, maps and dreams
The gardens are different every year and we like experimenting with old ideas and new ones → Read More
Greenpoint: Straws, sure, but what other plastic can you eliminate?
No matter how hard I try, I cannot get away from disposable plastics. I do my best. I keep reusable shopping bags in my car and small collapsible ones in my purse. I bring my reusable coffee mug and water bottles with me, and pack my lunchbox with fruit, soup and leftovers in glass mason jars. But my grocery bag is filled with plastic-wrapped foods, my son brings home disposable water bottles… → Read More
Greenpoint: Eclipse or not, watching winter night sky is magical
The last moon on the last night of January got a lot of press. For more than a month I’d been hearing about it: the blood moon, the blue moon, the super moon, the total lunar eclipse. It wasn’t until about a week before the moon was full that I started reading up on where exactly this eclipse would be visible. “Want to go to Hawaii?” I asked my Floridian husband, who would actually like to go… → Read More
Greenpoint: Walking through a world dressed in white
It’s a winter like we haven’t had in years — the cold, the snow, the complaining, the beauty. The world is changed in the snow. Conifers adopt a new shape, branches lowered, holding mounds of snow so bright it makes their needles look black by comparison. The snow that dressed our spruce hedgerow at Christmas hasn’t dropped or melted yet. Deciduous trees also take on a new look, their bare black… → Read More
Greenpoint: With new year, chickadees back from who knows where
We had missed them since late fall, and were starting to wonder if all the chatter about missing birds was true → Read More
Greenpoint: Forget the resolutions
Maybe it makes sense to do this soul searching in winter when there's plenty of time to contemplate. → Read More
Greenpoint: Turn down lights so everyone can see stars
Cold, clear winter nights are great for looking up → Read More
Some tips on filling that Christmas stocking
In my house, Santa leaves fruit and nuts in the Christmas stockings. We understand it is because he has traveled all over the world, to places where oranges and coconuts and pecans and pomegranates grow, far away from our snowy world. It’s our own tradition, and our way of keeping Christmas simple at our house. Unpacking the Christmas stockings in the morning is the main event, besides being… → Read More
Functional or decorative, nutcrackers are part of holiday season
You can blame Tchaikovsky, or Balanchine, or even E.T.A. Hoffman → Read More