It is always a good day when I can spend time in the garden looking at and photographing my coneflowers. When I visit them where they are sprinkled throughout the gardens around my yard, I feel like I’m standing among friends. I love how each blossom is unique like every person’s face is unique. It…
A couple years ago I was inspired to add an arbor between my perennial beds to grow pole beans on to expand my square footage of edible landscaping beyond our small veggie patch out back. Besides being able to grow more of our own food, the arbor makes a nice privacy entrance to the back…
A few photos from our vacation on Mt. Dessert Island of lupine & beach rose, the quintessential Maine ocean-side flowers, and some favorite daisy shots (they are happy by the sea, too!) And a poem thrown in for good measure. 🙂 Flowers by the Sea Lupine’s purple spires announce, “summer’s here!” The deep purples gray…
When ice is so beautiful it warms your heart.
Welcome to spring in my garden. Unlike the dessert which may burst forth with life overnight after a soaking rain, here in New England spring is more of an unfolding; a familiar well-loved play with scenes we anticipate seeing that always surprises us with a detail – subtle or bold – that we have somehow…
It can be easy to dislike a cold rainy spring day when it is dark and raw in the 40s & 50s. Or we can go outside and look at nature’s miracles.
The beginning of April means pansies and my first trip of the season to the nursery a joyful time of looking at all the happy pansy faces and picking out the flat or two that makes me smile the most. It is as exciting to me as getting a Christmas tree – probably more…
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