While not getting to all the events we wanted to this Holiday season, we did manage an after Christmas trip to the Franklin Park Conservatory. I have a number of picture posts to make, but the first thing I wanted to highlight was the medley of art … [Read more...] about Chihuly Reimagined at Franklin Park Conservatory
2009
Winter Landscape
After Christmas day rains, we again had snowfall and the ground and trees were trimmed with a confectioners icing of powdered snow. It sifted down and clung to all the branches with little puffs in the crooks and crannies of the shrubs. Since most of … [Read more...] about Winter Landscape
Just A Note
It snowed over night, and I woke up to the beauty of a world draped and trimmed in fluffy white. My son remarked how much warmer it felt with the snowfall, but we didn't know why. Turns out Susan Reimer has done some homework on it:Snow actually … [Read more...] about Just A Note
Busy December
Every season has its busyness, but holiday preparing and plans always seem to compound it for December. The garden waits quietly for me- I still spend some time on it but it moves far down the task list this month. This season there are different … [Read more...] about Busy December
Mid November Garden Photos
Here are some photos in a plain collage, the only common feature is that they are from my garden and taken after frosts have visited. Now, fun question. Can you guess what the golden leaved shrub is called,(pictured in the top middle and top left … [Read more...] about Mid November Garden Photos
More November Retrospects
This is the Gardener's Year in Review...probably the one thing in which we gardening enthusiasts are a step ahead of the rest of the world: review the year in November.I spoke already of some of the successes and failures of 2009, but I have some … [Read more...] about More November Retrospects
Season’s End
End of November will mean the final end of my growing season. There have been years I plant and do garden work in December and January, but it is a bit of madness really... and I don't see that in my future at this point. So the end of my garden … [Read more...] about Season’s End
Never enough time…
But we make time for those things we want to. Just sometimes it is response to others applying pressure and all we want is to get that feeling of pressure off! Well, today let's just buck that trend, shall we? Do you need to take a little time to … [Read more...] about Never enough time…
Sad Truths
There are many sad truths in life. We find many of them in the garden, contributing to the melancholy way we feel in fall when our natural tendency is to do a retrospective similar to the way we view the timeline of the year at New Year's. The same … [Read more...] about Sad Truths
Giant Pumpkins
Yesterday I watched, with a mixture of fascination and horror, the PBS documentary "Lords of the Gourd" about the lengths people will go to in growing the most gigantic pumpkin. It isn't that I couldn't identify, but that is part of the … [Read more...] about Giant Pumpkins
