Cooking with fire

WORCESTER  —  Remnants of the week's snowstorm still linger, but inside the DCU Center this weekend, spring is in bloom.

The outdoor-living expo began yesterday and runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow.

Robert J. Terkanian of Shrewsbury, a visitor to the annual show since it was in Tuckerman Hall in 1960, said, “I love when it's weather like this outside, because when you come in, it's like, ‘Whoa!'”

The show offers inspiration for Mr. Terkanian's lifelong landscaping avocation. His fanciful garden, which borders a pond behind Hebert's Candy Mansion on Route 20 and has artwork tucked among the plants, draws visitors from all over.

“I come to steal ideas; because thoughts don't come from us, they come through us,”


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