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	<title>Cindy La Ferle's Home Office &#187; gardening</title>
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		<title>Gardening Wright</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.&#8221;  ~John Lubbock Despite all the work involved, owning and caring for a second home is a privilege &#8212; especially if that home was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. For me, one of the most exciting aspects of our Wright home in St. Joseph is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer unplugged?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By isolating himself at Walden Pond, Thoreau hadn&#8217;t run away from life. He&#8217;d run toward it. Why couldn&#8217;t we leave our lives of quiet, digital desperation and do the same?&#8221; &#8212; Susan Maushart, from The Winter of Our Disconnect Once in a while, we all need to unplug. Friends who&#8217;ve been visiting this site for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garden treasures</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/05/15642/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 18:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.  ~Mirabel Osler Like most people who love to garden, I&#8217;ve been by frustrated by spring&#8217;s slow arrival in Michigan. Finally, the sun rose in a cloudless sky this morning, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backyard exhibition</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/07/backyard-exhibition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether it&#8217;s classical urns or pink plastic flamingos, limestone saints or impish ceramic elves, Ionic Styrofoam pedestals or poured concrete birdbaths, you are the curator of your own backyard exhibition.&#8221; &#8212; Mary Randolph Carter I believe a garden should be more than rows of groomed beds and well-tended flowers. Just as the interior of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zen garden</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/06/zen-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All my hurts my garden spade can heal.&#8221; &#8212; Ralph Waldo Emerson Titled &#8220;The Art of Midlife Gardening,&#8221; this essay was published in Victoria magazine in the March/April issue this year. With the editor&#8217;s permission, I&#8217;m sharing the piece with you while I&#8217;m off this week&#8230; Last spring, members of our local Master Gardener Society [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fair-weather friend</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/05/fair-weather-friend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 11:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The windows of my soul I throw wide open to the sun.&#8221; &#8212; John Greenleaf Whittier Dear Friends, If you&#8217;ve been reading my blog for a while, you know I spend less time hanging out here in the Home Office when it&#8217;s warm outside. The laptop stays indoors and I don&#8217;t. In summer, I try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;In Perpetual Spring&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/04/in-perpetual-spring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.&#8221;  ~Hanna Rion Spring reminds us that we humans were not designed to hunker down in front of a computer monitor for days on end. At some point, we must wake up and engage all of our senses. We need to feel the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Botanica</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/01/botanica-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.&#8221;  ~Henry David Thoreau When I was a student at Michigan State University in the 1970s, three natural science courses were required of all liberal arts students. An artsy kid, I&#8217;d nearly flunked math and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter garden tour</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/01/winter-garden-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Nature has undoubtedly mastered the art of winter gardening and even the most experienced gardener can learn from the unrestrained beauty around them.&#8221; &#8212; Vincent A. Simeone Of course, I&#8217;d rather be gardening on my knees &#8212; on the soft green lawns of May and June.  But being an optimist, I try to look for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I did on my summer vacation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. &#8212; Ashleigh Brilliant Summer arrived with its boxing gloves on. Or, as John Lennon pointed out, &#8220;Life is what happens when you&#8217;re busy making other plans.&#8221; Which is why I haven&#8217;t been filling this space with new material lately. By mid-June, it was obvious that my father-in-law&#8217;s dementia [...]]]></description>
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