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Gingerbread Houses in the Franklin Park Conservatory. Christmas season contained a display of Gingerbread houses. Be sure to see Gardens in Ohio and A Botanical Wedding. … [Read more...] about Gingerbread Houses
If you want to know what Arborvitae bushes grow up to be: trees! As snow flurries swirled I snapped a closeup picture of my tree.In my old[er] age I like to stay inside and look through the window. This is a scene I took while inside while snow blew … [Read more...] about Snow plus camera= pictures
This blog will have a seasonal slowdown. I might post some photos or poems and quotes, but until after the holidays there won't be any full size posts or regular blogging here. There are daily posts @ the Advent blog and that is more writing than I … [Read more...] about December Slow Down
Dream no more: it's here! Deep drifting mounds of fluffy white snow. the kind that is soft and packable and holds the large crystal shapes in fragile sparkly points... just visible long enough to astound you with their beauty before they melt away.I … [Read more...] about Dreaming of a White Christmas
It is Ohio, so it's any ones guess. For now, we have good gardening weather, if only the Holiday preparations allowed any time for it. I did manage to continue sprucing up the yard a bit and the kids prevailed upon the husband for the Christmas … [Read more...] about White or Green?
