Category Outdoor Living

One row over from us at the last cold-morning tailgate, a generator droned from seven until noon: cords, fuel cans,…

Daylight saving ends on Sunday, November 1 this year, and if you cook outside, that date is not trivia. It…

Tuesday, 6:05 in the morning, 34 degrees, pitch dark. I was walking the recycling bin down our narrow side path…

Sometime in the next couple of months, a plow driver who has never met you will make one pass down…

Two street fronts. Two sidewalks. Two sets of trick-or-treaters, two snow-storage zones, and two neighbors who each privately consider the…

The myth of gate lighting is that a gate needs gate hardware. Contractors will happily quote you a transformer, a…

Quick question, and be honest: if an ambulance needed to reach your house tonight, could the crew read your address…

Confession: two Halloweens ago I ruined the holiday for our dog in under a minute. I had just staked a…

Are solar lights safe for the hundred or so kids who will march up your walk on October 31? Safer…

There is a particular kind of October Saturday, usually the one two weekends before Halloween, when the air finally smells…

Renters get the worst lighting deal there is. The landlord provides one fixture, usually a sad flush-mount by the door,…

The best view in your yard after dark may be straight up. Most people never see it, and the reason…

My mother-in-law tripped on her own back step two Octobers ago, in the gap between the porch light’s reach and…

I learned outdoor dining lighting from a restaurant, not a magazine. The place had six tables under strings of warm…

Somewhere around the third week of September, the porch changes jobs. All summer it was a place you walked through.…