Beverly Nichols has always been one of my favorite garden writers. In addition to the books listed above, also try his: A Thatched Roof (1933) A Village In a Valley (1934) Green Grows the City (1939) Merry Hall (1951) Laughter on the Stairs (1953) The years in parens are the years of the first editions. In the case of 'Merry Hall', 1951 was the first British edition and 1953 the first USA edition. 'Sunlight On The Lawn' was written between 'Merry Hall' and 'Laughter'. Mr Nichols also wrote a large and excellent book on the influence of art on flower arranging (The Art of Flower Arrangement, 1967). Check out AbeBooks for various editions of Nichols' all now-out-of-print books (although I think some have been reprinted in recent years, not all have.) Here is a link that might be useful: AbeBooks

Andrea- I live in eastern Washington, about five miles from Idaho. It's very different from Seattle and Gig Harbor...more like Honalee's description (which is beautiful, by the way). Summer here is warm (sometimes hot) but it cools off at night. Spring starts late, but once it warms up, we have a constant wave of flowers blooming...bulbs to lilacs, moving into peonies and roses. These usually bloom end of May/early June, but this year, they're just now blooming, with our very late and cool spring. Fall and winter tend to overlap too soon. We have beautiful, late summer/early fall, but it gets cold and we usually have snow by late October/early November...and then it's winter until mid March. Most of the area gets their first frost in mid-late September, but ours is usually the end of August....and our last frost is early June, not mid May, like in town. Of course, out on the farm and in the small towns, we do have friendly people, very low housing prices (especially outside of town) and lots of land. We also have several major lakes nearby, lots of pine trees and mountains...and very low humidity. Oh, and Andrea, if you like snow, you should think about eastern Washington/Oregon...because we've been getting 100+ inches lately. A few years ago we had the 1st and 3rd most snow ever...breaking a record set in the 1950s. Hope things cool down for you, soon and you get some well-needed rain! :)

welcome :) lol.. i LIKE canada but i was born here so i guess i'm used to the snow. we're actually considering a move 10 hours north of where we are now (for job opportunities.. not the snow!) right now, we're about an hour and half from toronto. i saw your pictures from your other post. beautiful stuff!! i really loved the pieces of wood. i've never seen anything like that before. as far as glass cutting, i just use the running pliers and a ruler if i need squares and hope for the best. i don't use a lot of squares though.. usually just random shapes.

Nobody says you have to do it the same way as I do tsunami2. My husband bought me my PSP for this purpose. I'm happy with it. He offered to let me have his old palm held, which would have done more stuff, and certainly cost a lot more although it was a business expense. Instead i suggested he let one of our employees use it. Of course you need the computer too, to put the photos on the PSP, but obviously we all have them, or we wouldn't be here. I know plenty of people who think they are an unjustifiable waste of money :-) Printing out photos is not an option for me because I would need a far better printer, and can't justify that expense, as i don't need it for anything else. I find the reaction to showing people photos on my PSP is far better than when I drag out the envelope of photos, or the album, but I am sure that is partly the novelty value. Actually the PSP screen is far better than MY computer screen. It automatically focuses, and you can zoom in and out at ease, plus a number of other useful features. The 1 gig memory chip cost me $150 BTW. Not looking to "earn" friends with mine :-) particularly not trendy kids, although my 3 year old Grandson's admiration I enjoy. I'm sorry you don't think I was justified spending $550 on my new toy, but I would be curious to know how many holidays you have enjoyed over the last 20 years, and what you have spent on them? Each to their own, and don't be too critical of what others enjoy. People don't always have the same priorities in life. Cheers, Jan (who also has a Nintendo DS, and plays games instead of watching Big Brother)