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Cheap and Easy Closet Organizing

Sunday, May 19, 2013

There’s only one thing more satisfying than organizing your closet: Doing it on the cheap. Sure, I love those closet glamour shots as much as anyone. I’m a sucker for solid cherry shoe shelves and rows of matching canvas bins identified by adorable hang tags. I just don’t want to spend my money on them. Besides, those photographs of tricked-out closets invariably show unrealistic wardrobes. Are we really supposed to …

Bloom Time

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Peg Davis arranges a vase of fresh-cut lilacs from her yard in Enfield on Friday. “We’ll put them on the table and take off my make-believe ones,” she said while replacing a bouquet of plastic tulips. “I like fresh flowers.” Valley News — James M. Patterson …

Notes from the Garden: Spring Flowers; Time to Learn a Little Latin

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Spring Flowers for May 15, 2013 Like most gardeners, I rejoice in spring. New leaves on trees have a special hue; the grass is finally green; flowers of every persuasion are in bloom. The air is warm, the black flies haven’t arrived, life is good. So we trundle off to the garden center and buy flowers and plant them. Here are some flowers …