Here at LifeScapes, Susan blogs about life at Meadow Knoll, the homestead she and husband Bill Albert settled more than 30 years ago, deep in the Texas Hill Country. She posts about the landscape and the many creatures that share their 31 acres, as well as local and planetary environmental issues. She also writes about her life as a writer, publisher, and teacher. For more about the Alberts’ wildlands, woodlands, gardens, farm animals, and (of course) writing, read her memoirs: Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place and An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days.
Sunflowers: In Bloom This Week
Every year, the sunflowers bloom along our lane, as dependable as the sun itself. This native sunflower is Helianthus annuus–native, that is, to the Americas, although it has now traveled around the planet. The Americans who were here before us used every part of the sunflower. They […]
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