Category: Garden

This past week, our neighbor came over, panting and out of breath from a recent run, and stuck his head over the back fence. “You have to come see this!” he exclaimed, wide-eyed. “We have hit the morel jackpot!” He lead me, carefully stepping through the grass under our apple tree, to a patch of … Continue reading “Morel Mushrooms… In Our Yard!”

Sorry for the crickets yesterday… I know I usually have something on Thursdays, but frankly I was just exhausted from a very busy week! It’s funny to me when people call and reach out asking if everything is okay if I miss a day of blogging — guess that means I’m somewhat predictable? Ha, ha! … Continue reading “Happy Friday!”

We have plants everywhere in our 100-year-old house — mainly on the third floor, where there are three large skylights plus north- and south-facing windows and even a small window facing east. There is so much light up there and the plants love it so much that it’s beginning to look a lot like a … Continue reading “Indoor Flora in the Winter Months”

Above: our weed-infested garden last Monday; below, 24 hours later Walking past our vegetable garden this summer became painful. We tried to ignore it– the overgrown weeds, the rotting kale that had drowned months ago in the unseasonably wet entire month of June. Past the weeds that grew waist-high, past all the failure. Brush it aside, … Continue reading “The Garden, a Metaphor for Friendship”

Yesterday morning I spent my time sweating and swatting at the tiny red ants that crawled into my shoes and up my leg, attempting in vain to protect the massive nest which I was single-handedly destroying as I pulled weeds and the rest of the strawberry plants from one of the beds of the boys’ … Continue reading “Breakfast with the Ladies”