Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Canadian Bakin’ Canadian bakin’ (and cookin’, gardenin’, and mushroom huntin’) is just some of what’s in store for The Renaissance Garden Guy and my wife Ann and me as we start our life together here in Bridge Lake, British Columbia, smack dab in the wild heart of the Cariboo […]
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy The Renaissance Garden Guy and Gal “The Renaissance Garden Guy and Gal” is a short chronicling of the events leading up to and surrounding my recent marriage to my wife, Ann. The story proceeds based on my presumption of interest from readers and subscribers, and, while revealing, contains not
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Flowers from Days Gone By Beginning with the printing of her first seed catalog in 1896, Miss Emma V. White of Minneapolis, Minnesota sold beautiful flower seeds to appreciative gardeners throughout the United States. Her lovingly illustrated catalogs were works of art in and of themselves, and they clearly
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy My Holiday Wish for You My Holiday wish for you is a lifelong one. You can grant it yourself by always remembering to take the short view. By John G. Stamos Well, now, readers and subscribers, perched right here on the cusp of 2024, with the Christmas Holiday in
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Building a Memory The memories I keep of my remarkable mate are indelible and eternal. I’ll carry her in my heart and in my mind until the day I die. And she’ll never be forgotten by those whose lives she’d touched over the years. But for those rare few
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy My Girl My girl remains forever in my heart and forever on my mind. Life does go on, but it will never be the same without my Dee Dee. By John G. Stamos “Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone?”
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Buds The word “buds” is a deceptively loaded one. It’s short, but it can be useful in making sense of some of life’s realities and vicissitudes. By John G. Stamos I’ve written here many times before about the activity of gardening’s usefulness as a backdrop for many seemingly unrelated
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy My Tony My Tony… Dear Readers and Subscribers, My dog, Tony, passed away yesterday, May 18, 2023. To Dee Dee and me, he was our child. I will grieve for my Tony, as I will for my Dee Dee, until the day I die. In the space of four
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy The Loss of My Love The loss of my love… In the early morning hours of May 15, 2023, I lost the love of my life – my better half, my soulmate, my partner, my best friend – Dee Dee Duhn. She passed away peacefully in her sleep while
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Testament to a Friendship An incredibly beautiful written testament to a very special 90 year friendship recently resurfaced after almost 30 years of obscurity. The timing of its reappearance and subsequent re-reading represents nothing short of providence. By John G. Stamos My mother, Bessie Stamos, passed away peacefully on
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