Today has been what I consider a perfect day: blue skies, puffy clouds, gentle breezes, happy plants. Warm, quiet, with the scent of roses and mock orange wafting through the air… with no discernible demands. I did a little weeding this morning and that was it. Unlike yesterday, where I worked myself into painful oblivion […]
How's the weather?
Wild And Windy
No, not me, the weather. I am amazed at the bloom on my apple and crabapple trees this year, the frost did not seem to have affected them. Of course with the weather as it is I am mostly looking at them through the window. As a friend mentioned to me, when I asked her […]
March Gives A Lion’s Roar
The short respite of warm weather gave a glimpse of the emerging daffodil’s speared leaves piercing through the bare ground, but winter’s icy hands are loathe to let us go and has employed the March Lion to fiercely roar with gusts of a blizzard storm. Winter dies hard this year, but I am hopeful that […]
In the Deep Freeze
Deep freeze While we are in the deep freezer here in Ohio, I have been setting up (ever so slowly) my new computer. I find myself planning my garden season in the year to come, and am hopeful that my husbands newly mentioned interest comes to fruition. He seems most interested in the vegetable garden, […]
More Than 60 Percent of U.S. in Drought
BREITBART.COM – More Than 60 Percent of U.S. in Drought reads the headline “More than 60 percent of the United States now has abnormally dry or drought conditions, stretching from Georgia to Arizona and across the north through the Dakotas, Minnesota, Montana and Wisconsin, said Mark Svoboda, a climatologist for the National Drought Mitigation Center […]
July and the days are steamy….
Inniswood Garden I made another template and in parallel I am trying to renovate the garden, as well. I started nearest the house, weeding out the lavender-rue hedge along the walk. and the bed around the pole lamp. Then I started on the approach to the back door. Out here in the country most people […]
