Thank you William Spence

I will be the first to admit a blog is daunting. After spending a day slogging though my book writing why this too? Actually I am a little afraid it will boring to everyone but me. But no one is making anyone return to this site so what the heck. The latest buzz is if you have a book you must have a blog. Truth be told I do love to visit gardens and writing a book about Mt. Vernon gardener is a great way to visit a garden but a whole period in time. So this is it. I would love to find a way to use Pininterest in this because I love finding pictures of what I am writing about in the book. I will look into that and get back with you. 

I always wondered how does someone get inspired to write a book. Me it was envy. I was at the ribbon cutting at Mt. Vernon, for the restoration of the Gardener's Cottage in 2019. Suits and heels all around me, the Ladies who saved and continue to run Mt. Vernon were there. I started to think about an eighteen old gardener from Scotland showing up at Mt. Vernon at the very end of Washington's life, he had just retired in 1797 and at the beginning of the industrial revolution. I was envious, I would have loved to be that guy, so a book was my ticket. William Spence aka Cheval. Several years later I am actually going to finish this book and look for an agent and a publisher. What an adventure it has been for me. Thank you William Spence.