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 grouse, but when I tell you about […]
memories
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 09/09/03. Posts get lost on blogs, so […]
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 worst annuals.Of course I will tweak it a […]
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 increasing. My interest in history, and then gardening, began to branch towards […]
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 lived on were city streets, […]
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. I sat on the ground to photograph it; as in olden custom there were plots that were […]
