Ice Can Be Beautiful . . .
. . . but it can be destructive too. We had an ice storm night before last, making yesterday a combination of a winter wonderland, extensive tree damage and power outages. The power outage started...
View ArticleSpring Memories of Lilacs
When we lived at the farm, we had a huge lilac bush (at least 7 ft. tall) in the yard. And every year at this time, I would cut branches from it and put them in vases in the house. What wonderful...
View ArticleGot Rhubarb?
I guess you either love rhubarb or hate it. It was an acquired taste for me as an adult but now I love it, and, to me, it is another “sign of spring”. At the farm, we had a row of rhubarb all...
View ArticleFlying PB and J
For many of the years that Hubby and I flew on airlines, meals were a given. Then they started being “iffy”. While they hadn’t yet admitted that they were systematically eliminating meals from...
View ArticleWhere I saw beauty …
… he saw trouble. When playing golf the other day I noticed this at the base of a tree. One of my friends told me that the berries are poisonous, but I told her I wasn’t seeing it as pie material, I...
View ArticleFall Backwards
Catching a picture of Fall foliage in a rear view mirror (because I had thought this would be a verrrry clever title for a post, but, obviously, needed a picture to make it work) was much...
View ArticleCuriosity may have killed the cat . . .
but it only slightly wounded me . . . in the pocketbook. This is, for you less curious sorts, a horned melon. “Why on earth would you buy something called a horned melon?”, you would ask. And I...
View ArticleHi, ‘drangea, you’re lookin’ good!
I received a potted hydrangea as a gift last year. I love them but have heard that they are hard to raise, so I’ve never tried. But since I had the potted one, after it was done blooming, I stuck it...
View ArticleWindow Garden for a Black Thumb!
I read about doing this somewhere and couldn’t resist giving it a try. After using the top of a bunch of green onions, put the white bulbs in water and grow your next bunch! This was taken two days...
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