A primrose blooms
My mother passed away in a nursing home in the spring. A while before she died, a friend gave her a little potted primrose. She liked it, but she kept […]
Category Archives: Nature
So many reasons to be thankful
I have a lot to be thankful for. Thanksgiving is a special day with special history; a time when people stop to remember what all they have to […]
Squirrels always surprise me, and make me laugh
This cute little fella was on the back porch in a snowstorm a couple of years ago, asking for more sunflower seeds to be brought out. They hide a lot […]
Back to the beginning
The pergola looks so bare, cos I just cut the beans down. We had our first hard freeze last night, so now everything out there is officially done. Several of […]
Sharing heirloom seeds
Heirloom seeds will survive if more people plant them, and talking about them with other gardeners and sharing them is the way to get more people to plant them. I’ve […]
October collards are the best
By October it has cooled off some and the plants are making smaller leaves, but they’re sweeter and more tender. Since I’ve been pulling leaves from the bottom of the […]
Fall creeps in………
It will soon come to the time when we can’t enjoy the fresh smell of laundry on the line. It hasn’t rained here much at all lately and the brown […]
Goodies from the end of the garden
Mmmm, stuff from the garden is always the best. I have a few jalapenos left, the regular green ones that have now turned red. Eliza’s purple ones are flowering and […]
Maybe I’m addicted to picking beans
OK, I could be addicted to picking beans, cos I just love picking them off the plants after having helped to teach the plants which way to climb and then […]
King of the Garden Lima beans are now getting serious
My King of the Garden Lima beans are later than other people’s’ Limas, and were last year. I don’t know why that is, but now they have decided to get […]
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