One of my friends from high school lives in the Northampton, MA area and I try to see her when possible. She has the most beautiful little garden on a stone porch outside her kitchen. I didn’t want to leave. She cut me a pristine gardenia and it lasted a week. I guarded it with my life!

On to a visit to Emily Dickinson’s House

Emily was considered an odd ball, and her work was not published until after her death when her sister, Lavinia, promoted it to publishers. She dressed strangely for her time in a white house dress and toward her later years she didn’t want to leave her house.

Emily Dickenson House

Emily Dickenson House

Emily Dickenson House

The garden

Later, dinner at Zoe’s.