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All Right Already! Enough Rain…
Posted on | January 26, 2010 | No Comments
It has been raining since January 16th, to be precise. Knowing how badly we need it, I haven’t wanted to complain. Kept telling myself how good the moist air is for the skin. Kept breaking out the baseball caps and my Indiana Jones felted wool hat to keep the rain off my glasses when I [...]
You Can’t Fool Mother Nature
Posted on | January 22, 2010 | No Comments
Right after New Year’s, when I returned home and had an opportunity to see my garden through fresh eyes, it seemed as if spring was already pushing its timid way up through the soil. Or through the stalks of last year’s callas, as the case may be. The citrus crop was badly compromised by hard [...]
Remontant Irises
Posted on | November 8, 2009 | No Comments
Perhaps you remember seeing these irises last week, enjoying their second bloom cycle in a single year: Well, I don’t mean to go on about it (despite my iris aficionado bona fides), but here’s another one that opened up this week: Gorgeous! And just for good measure here’s another shot of the pink dogwood in full autumn glory:
Winter Squash
Posted on | November 6, 2009 | No Comments
This is as festive as it got chez moi this Halloween season. We used to have very few trick-or-treaters, just a handful of little kids with their parents hovering protectively at the front gate. Suddenly in the last year or so, our neighborhood seems to have been discovered, and this year we had a steady stream [...]