If you need motivation to go out in the January cold to do some garden work, picture a tree covered in showy white flowers in spring and orange-red fruit in fall. Better yet, picture yourself next ...

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Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of the poetry collection “Silver,” among others. “The festival of eariwigs dispersed as I dragged / the blue tarp off the logs left to season now / for going on a ...