September PineStraw

Lines to a Toad in a Rose Garden You’re all eyes, even on the back of your head and warty as a road. Brown as the ground beneath roses. Roses red as song, pink as a whistle, yellow as whiskey and [...]

The interactive gardens of Star Ridge Aquatics By Amberly Glitz Weber   •   Photographs by John Gessner        Photos Above: Star Ridge Aquatics In the cool of the morning, as the sun rises over [...]

When The Color Purple came to visit By Lu Huntley   •   Illustration by Gary Palmer It begins with a surprise phone call. In early January 1985, Bill Arnold, appointed by Gov. Jim Hunt as North [...]

Strolling through the Gardens at Sunny Mount By Claudia Watson   •   Photographs by Laura L. Gingerich     The experience of walking through the Gardens at Sunny Mount is like taking a tour of a [...]

The embrace of new minimalism By Deborah Salomon Photographs by John Gessner      There it stands, beyond contemporary, a stark union of planes and angles. A symphony by Stravinsky. A guitar by [...]

Fiction by Valerie Nieman Illustration by Jenn Hales Andi hadn’t been startled awake for several nights, ever since the contractor fixed that foundation problem, but now she sat straight up in [...]