With winter creeping this way, have you considered why you garden? Winter is a time of rest, renewal and review. Why do we …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, colorful November
[Please click on the photos in the gallery to make them larger] I managed to delude myself for the past few weeks imagining it …
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If you show me yours, I’ll show you mine . . .
Compost that is. What did you think I was talking about? At my suggestion in a recent comment, Carol at May Dreams Gardens …
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Mish Mash Monday: it feels like spring
In my garden, it feels like June. Today's high temperature was 78F. All the doors are open to the warm breeze. You would think …
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Some girls buy shoes . . . .
Last night, HH and I attended our church's oh-so-swanky auction at the Skirvin Hotel, so, Friday, my husband asked me what I was …
The ugly duckling stage of chickenhood
Several of you asked about the chickens. Well, as you can see, they're growing, but not crowing (yet . . . I think there are a …
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Of red-shouldered hawks and late roses
This majestic creature (now correctly identified by Lisa at Greenbow as a Red-shouldered hawk) sat outside my kitchen window …
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Happy All Hallows’ Eve
One of the gifts of growing older is I'm no longer bored. When I was a child, it seemed like many days dragged by in a …
Vegetable garden tour
Although you may have surmised from my letters with Carol and Mary Ann, it wasn't all bad news in my vegetable garden this year. …
Peeps asleep
Last week, baby chicks arrived in the mail. The first time we ordered chickens, I was surprised at the process. You place your …
Autumn’s not so understated beauty
Busy this week with maternal duties and, later, writing projects, I nearly failed to glance outside my window. Thank goodness I …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, October 2009
Bloom Day dawned with more rain and fog. We are covered in a misty, gray morning for the second week in a row, and it's starting …
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