It's where I focus and spend a lot of my time and energy. She was advised to give it a rest for a time, then come back in a lower range. But by then, this house and the land had worked their spell. I find over the years different parts of the house have sort of called to me. I have a portable computer so that when I need to write something I can sort of wander around and find which place, which table of what part of the garden, I feel like doing it in.
Writing is a recent enthusiasm.
Gardening came first, developed into a small business, Singing Stones Nursery, and remains a passion. The garden was one of the things that drew her to the house when they first saw it, in 1989. The house was well maintained, but it needed updating. By 1997, they were ready to give up their apartment in New York and move in full time. In the warm months, Lisa McMahon spends all her available time outdoors, tending to a varied landscape that few people other than family friends and visitors ever see, except when it is on one or another garden tour.