I'm not ready to write this post, but I must start somewhere. It is part explanation, part apology, part a ploy for commiseration. This is not a farewell post. No, I just signed up for two more expensive years of hosting. Yes, that was a bit of a … [Read more...] about HELLLOOOO, From The Other Side
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Post Highlights … Time Travel Through 8 Years Of The Journal
I saw A Way to Garden announced her 3rd year blog birthday (in March), and it got me wondering...just how old is my blog, anyway? And I didn't even know which month I started it. So I looked back. Not a real post, but opened the blog on … [Read more...] about Post Highlights … Time Travel Through 8 Years Of The Journal
Garden Meme- ory
Dear Friends...do try your hand at the Garden Haiku, and in the meantime I will attempt to follow Mr.Mcgregor's Daughter invitation to a meme she proposed in July. For me this is the time for this meme which asks for a recount of this years best and … [Read more...] about Garden Meme- ory
My Rural Garden
Or How I Got To Be Here ...it all begins somewhere.I had been gardening in the city for some years. I don't remember ever wishing to move into a country place, particularly, but my city neighborhood was deteriorating and my family size was … [Read more...] about My Rural Garden
Earliest Inkling: Garden Plants of My Childhood
I have gardened in some way or another for most of my 56+ years now, but I also came from gardening stock -at least as far back as my grandparents. I suppose that is why plants and trees often stand out in my memory from quite early.The streets I … [Read more...] about Earliest Inkling: Garden Plants of My Childhood
Old Fashioned Things
Three Revolutionary soldiers are buried in this pioneer burial place, the Beard-Green cemetery, located within Dawes arboretum. On one old grave, whose markings were long defaced by rain and other unkindnesses, grew a lone stand of scilla hispanica. … [Read more...] about Old Fashioned Things
My Garden Roots
Way back, ...oh, in 2005... I came across a meme that I had fun doing called the "Where I'm From" poem. It seems to have started with Fragments from Floyd, although I first ran across it @ Pratie's Place. They were all based on an original poem. … [Read more...] about My Garden Roots
Shared Views
After reading Away to Garden's post on the viewscapes (viewsheds) of the Hudson Valley, some of the questions about our landscape views... such as "Perhaps you know of some to share, or some you never want to lose?" and "Are there views you treasure … [Read more...] about Shared Views
Spring Blooming
So much is blooming it is hard to keep up making notes on it all. The cherry trees, pear, and peach are all in bloom-probably the apples, too, but I didn't walk out that far to check. The crabapples are breaking into bud, the 'Snowdrift' variety has … [Read more...] about Spring Blooming
Garden Fairies
As a child I was enamored of the idea of fairies and spent long hours making fairy houses with intricately woven stories from my imagination to go along with them. Carol of May Dreams Gardens awakened me with her flight of fancy into "fairy names" … [Read more...] about Garden Fairies
