A display from one of the garden stores I visited. It seems that the idea of creating a Fairy Garden is popular again this year, and no surprise since there is something about those itsy bitsy little worlds that catch the imagination even if you don’t believe in fairies, per se. (Shhhh, don’t let Tinkerbell […]
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Autumn Garden Assessment
Noting this last growing season’s garden in the Garden File. Not a stellar gardening year for me in 2011. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ © 2011 written for Ilona’s Garden Journal. An excellent blog.
Notes from Chicago
Today we had our first experience of a large ( for Ohio) earthquake. A landmark day you might say. In Chicago there was something equally earthshaking with the Awakening convocation. I loved being there in Chicago and there is a certain exhilaration to the entire area. I visited the Baha’i Temple- a place I often […]
I wore a hole in my good leather gardening gloves grubbing out the weeds in the stone walk, dropped a garden fork on my toe and ruined the polish, my arms are itchy from from weeding among the rue and the shrubs, but all in all it’s a good day. Too late to take a […]
A lovely summer day
Summer DayPotthast, Edward…Buy This Allposters.com It has been a long time since I have waxed poetic… that expression only manifests when the time is given for long reflective periods, when the beauty of atmosphere can saturate my very skin and sink deeply into my mind. There it ferments, as I turn phrases in my head, […]
Back Home- The Weeds!
Yes, I am back home in my own garden…my own little piece of paradise, but oh my, the weeds have been taking over while the gardener was gone. That is not the only thing. The first thing I noticed after arriving at 11PM were the bugs. June bugs and mosquitoes…. and other little critters I’m […]
