“A garden should make you feel you’ve entered privileged space–a place not just set apart, but reverberant–and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.”
~ Michael Pollan (in Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education)

Can we help you create a “privileged space” for you and your loved ones? We’d be delighted to partner with you to create some backyard poetry, and invite you to give us a call: 717-665-1273.

Shared by Betty Hanselman
Gardener’s wife (& “privileged space” dweller)

Hand-shaped stepping stones curve past a tsukubai water feature and graceful Japanese Maples to provide passage and interest in a formerly soggy section of this back yard, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on… A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.”
~ Aldo Leopold (American author, philosopher, naturalist, and conservationist; 1887-1948)

Joyfully shared by Betty Hanselman
Gardener’s wife (& grateful for all things November)

Although November is often a gray, cold and dreary passage into winter, there is much beauty to be discovered if you are willing to step out into your garden or into God’s great wide world. As you do, fill your lungs with fresh air, your eyes with grandeur, your spirit with joy; you just might come home singing. I hope so!

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”
~Sarah Ban Breathnach (Creator of the Simple Abundance Gratitude Journal)

WISHING YOU JOY THIS THANKSGIVING!
~Your friends at Hanselman Landscape

“You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill is all you need to bring interested people to your campfire.”
~ Shannon L Alder (American contemporary author)

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“I like the fall, the mist and all.
I like the night owl’s lonely call–
And wailing sound of wind around.

I like the gray November day,
And bare dead boughs that coldly sway
Against my pane. I like the rain.

I like to sit and laugh at it–
And tend my cozy fire a bit.
I like the fall–the mist and all.”
~ Dixie Willson (American screenwriter and author of children’s books and poems; 1890-1974)

Gladly contributed by Betty Hanselman
Gardener’s wife

Whether inside or outside, may you find things of beauty to lift your spirit and bring you joy, even in November.