Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Hoarfrost Summations “Hoarfrost Summations” is the third selection of my original poetry to appear here in The Renaissance Garden Guy. I’ll probably feature it in an upcoming book, but you can check it out right here in the meantime. By John G. Stamos Hoarfrost Summations By John G. Stamos […]
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy “Perfect Disasters” by Laura Lewis-Barr “Perfect Disasters” by Laura Lewis-Barr serves as a jolly cautionary vacationing tale which arrives just in time for the holiday travel crush. The award-winning filmmaker, author, and educator relates some of her more memorable trip-taking mishaps in this light-hearted lamentation. Perfect Disasters By Laura
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Of Sisyphus and CFM: The Forest, a Man, and His Leaf Blower Kicking Mother Nature’s ass is all about having the right equipment, and the right attitude. So go big, and do it proud and do it loud. Recounted here, in “Of Sisyphus and CFM,” are the high-decibel adventures
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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Guest Writer Nenad Knežević on Nature and Poetry’s Nexus This week, The Renaissance Garden Guy hosts guest writer Nenad Knežević, creator of the internationally renowned Grammaticus website and blog. The esteemed writer and academician contributes a beautiful essay on the joys of walking amidst nature, the art of appreciating
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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Away, and Away My poem, “Away, and Away.” I hope you’ll enjoy it. By John G. Stamos Away, and Away John G. Stamos The first robin. A corsage. A first kiss. A first love. A first car (a drop-top). The first firefly. Stars you can touch. Crickets and pizza.
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy How Do Climbing Vines Actually Climb? So how do climbing vines actually climb? Good question. And a good thing that my friend, Bob, is here to help me answer it. Today, Bob discovers that not all garden variety ornamental climbing vines are created equal. Turns out that different kinds
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Mary This is my original work, “Mary.” It’s the first of my poems to be published here in The RGG. I hope you’ll enjoy it. By John G. Stamos Mary John G. Stamos To hold this ephemeral sigh, this diaphanous notion, You, wistful moonlight on the crest of a
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Our Gardens, Our Lives: Parallels Examined by Laura Lewis-Barr With this week’s offering, Laura Lewis-Barr returns to The Renaissance Garden Guy and reveals another of her passions: gardening. And she’s quick to point out the remarkable parallels that exist between the vicissitudes of our own lives, and the happenings
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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Assessing Nature with a Certain Detachment, or, How I Learned to Love the Great Outdoors (Even Though I’ve Got a Wrecked Eyeball) An ocular misfortune put the brakes on my gardening efforts and landed them in the compost pile right along with my eyesight. I couldn’t tend my garden
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy A Rain Delay A rain delay? There’s no need to roll out the tarps. The game’s not going to be called. In fact, a rainy day in spring is the perfect time to catch all the action in the garden. By John G. Stamos I had originally planned another
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