Life in bloom (4/8/2026) - Pollinators, birds, bunnies, flowers, all popping into view, along with the pollen! Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net. A northern gannet on the Piankatank River on April 1, probably on… …
Springtime anxiety: What survived the winter? (4/8/2026) - Every year, the first warm days of spring cause me great anxiety. I don’t know what I am going to discover under the piles of leaves and dead foliage, and… …
Pound Cake Contest returns to May Faire; new category (4/8/2026) - The annual Pound Cake Contest is part of May Faire again in 2026. The two-day May Faire festival, sponsored by the Mathews Museum, is on Saturday, May 2 and Sunday,… …
Gloucester gets a Southern Living shoutout (4/8/2026) - Gloucester County and its Main Street are featured in an online posting from Southern Living magazine, dated March 26. The post states that “Spring transforms Gloucester, Virginia into a lively,… …
Operation Christmas Child (4/8/2026) - Members of the Chesapeake Bay Circle of The King’s Daughters and Sons wrapped 45 boxes for Operation Christmas Child at their meeting on March 26. Boxes were taken to Amy… …
Spring has sprung (4/1/2026) - And it’s in everything we see. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net. Sunrise in Remlik, submitted by Nina Gresham. One-year-old Emory Smith hands a daffodil to her grandmother, Kim Smith… …
The days of voles and roses (4/1/2026) - On March 8, a fellow Master Gardener, Beve Hermanson, posted a photo on Facebook of a large rose bush lying on its side in a wheelbarrow with its network of… …
Providence to be open for Historic House Tour on May 17 (4/1/2026) - The Mathews County Historical Society will hold a Historic House Tour and Garden Party from 2-5 p.m. on Sunday, May 17, at Providence, a stately Georgian mansion that overlooks the… …
In bloom (3/25/2026) - Thank you for filling our space with daffodils this week, and for keeping this column alive for six years now; it’s the only good thing we know that came out… …Heavenly scented littleleaf linden (3/25/2026) - On Saturday, I spent time outside in the garden. Birds were singing, daffodils were blooming, and some of the flowering shrubs were showing the tips of baby-green leaves. I watched… …
Colorful (3/25/2026) - Ester Hyman poses with the cat Bishop and a basket of daffodils from Richard Hicks’s “Aeolus Farm” on the North River. She is at St. James Anglican Church on Abingdon… …Animals, and imagination (3/25/2026) - Steve Angell of Gloucester sent a photo of a yearling fawn by his bird feeder. Could it be a…cat on Bethel Beach in Onemo? David McElroy took the photo. Bob… …
Quilts at show (3/25/2026) - Members of Bay Quilters Guild of Mathews exhibited 15 quilts at the recent 2026 Mancuo Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival in Hampton. Their works mirrored the show’s theme, “Let Freedom Ring,” in… …
Course leads to ecotour guide certification (3/25/2026) - A seven-week course is offered for this region by the Northern Neck Planning District Commission to become a Virginia Certified Ecotour Guide. It was announced by Virginia is for Outdoor… …
Special request (3/18/2026) - We would like to flood this space with daffodils in our March 26 issue, in honor of the Gloucester Daffodil Festival and the sixth anniversary of this photo feature. Please… …
Abina-Nolte (3/18/2026) - Rhiannon Arlene Nolte and Rafael John Abina were married at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026, in the parish hall of Abingdon Episcopal Church, White Marsh. David Nolte, father of… …Twig girdlers, twig pruners (3/18/2026) - Jim and I have spent hours this winter picking up dead twigs and branches that have blown down during the frequent high winds. While I was outside piling up more… …
Donation of quilts (3/18/2026) - Members of the Bay Quilters Guild of Mathews donated 28 wheelchair quilts this month to residents at Riverside Rehabilitation Center in Mathews. From left, retired teacher Carol Fary, retired florist… …
Registration open for Virginia Birding Classic (3/18/2026) - Registration has opened for the third annual Virginia Birding Classic, in which teams search Virginia’s public lands for as many bird species as possible in a 24-hour period. The statewide… …
DAR meeting (3/18/2026) - Members of the Augustine Warner Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution heard a Biblical storytelling program at its March meeting on Saturday. Penelope Ferguson told the group the… …They’re back! (3/11/2026) - Daffodils and birds seem to know that spring is near. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net. Emily Sadler of Dixie Knoll Farm, Cobbs Creek, welcomes the fresh-blooming daffodils. Rebecca Slater… …
Gloucester Daffodil Show returns March 28-29 (3/11/2026) - The 2026 Gloucester Daffodil Show will be held from 2-5 p.m. on Saturday, March 28, and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 29, during the annual Gloucester Daffodil Festival.… …Companion planting with herbs (3/11/2026) - Now that we have entered the second week of March and Daylight Saving Time, I have begun to think about getting back to work in the garden. It is a… …
Central Village Homemakers (3/11/2026) - Jean Howard from CA and J Farm was speaker for the March meeting of the Central Village Homemakers. She gave a history of her farm located at Foster which is… …
Changing seasons (3/4/2026) - Say goodbye (we hope) to the snow scenes and hello to crocuses. Daffodils will be next. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net. Crocus in bloom is a sure sign that… …