Wonders of the world
We went to Connecticut for five days to visit family and friends. It was a trip full of memories – good ones and not-so-good ones. Interesting to notice what I remembered, what I never...
Category: plants
New
The Golden Houses are hung at the gallery. They look good! I had one valerian bloom in the driveway last year. Such a surprise. I don’t know how it got there. This year, I...
I found them
I heard about sweetfern flowers from a naturalist friend. She said the plants could be male, female, or both. We have a lot of sweetfern on our property, so I was on the lookout...
Behind the garden
I was doing some work behind the garden a few days ago. The fences behind the compost bins are rotting away. Tearing out those boards and piling them up. There is also some tree...
March morning
This tree is in the willow grove – or the Immanent Grove as I call it, after a location in Ursula LeGuin’s The Wizard of Earthsea. I walk past it occasionally on my daily...
Autumn milestone
Garlic is planted! My favorite crop. It’s so trouble free. No deer predation. No diseases (so far), doesn’t suffer from slugs or snails. Magically appears in the spring after planting in the fall, when...
End of September garden with surprises
I spent a few peaceful hours in the garden this afternoon. The only sound was crickets and the occasional soft cluck of a chicken. There’s a definite fall feeling – not sad – but...