ilona’s pictures of her spring garden have been an inspiration for me to put color film in the old warhorse minolta, and take some garden pics around the farm …must still develop film and put onto a disc. some folks just stuck on the hard, outdated way % perhaps i can get a few on here so that […]
garden musings
all creation begins with a seed
throughout the latest 2-day spring deluge, i was confined to the back porch starting seeds both for my own garden use, plus a tray or two to promote and sell heirloom tomatoes… they are by far the best tasting tomatoes, plus you can save seeds and they will easily acclimate to your garden climate, wherever […]
Looking Behind – Looking Ahead
I’ve been wondering how we will fare with the drought in large portion of the nation this year. In looking over a past article (2006-linked in the title) on this, I had one of my first “blogstyle” entries from the old 1999 website: (Oct. 10 ’99) I could say something silly like “Time flies”, but […]
Frost at Midnight
Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,Whether the summer clothe the general earthWith greenness, or the redbreast sit and singBetwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branchOf mossy apple-tree, while the nigh thatchSmokes in the sun-thaw; whether the eave-drops fallHeard only in the trances of the blast,Or if the secret ministry of frostShall […]
Thoughts for an Autumn Day
..and a few pictures from my garden…. Isn’t it just the most exhilarating thing to be alive in this golden autumn, while flower borders are still rich and full of bloom as they can be, and be able to bridge the thought of a flowerless winter by planning and scheming and dreaming of the spring […]
Gardening Melts Pounds
In the heat we’ve had lately, gardening will literally melt pounds. You might know I started working out at Curves this year, and it really helps in the gardening activities- because gardening is labor. A labor of love surely, but labor all the same. It wasn’t until my gardening season started in earnest that I […]
