Pasque Flower
In January 2008, I bought a 105mm micro-Nikkor lens for macro photography. Marta McDowell and I had embarked on a new exciting but what seems at times quixotic project: Orchidaceous. I do not live with...
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I have a serious love-hate relationship going on at the moment. It is to the point of being all-consuming as such passionate relationships tend to be. A groundhog, affectionately known as Petunia (last...
View ArticleGarden Dreaming Deep
Took the Midtown Direct to Manhattan this week to see the strike-offs for my new fabric collection. It is due out in Houston for Fall International Quilt Market. I'm with a new manufacturer and very...
View ArticleCure for the Hungry Groundhog Blues
I 'm so grateful to my friend Marta for installing a deer fence all around her garden. And that she really is a neighbor. I could actually walk to her house in under an hour if necessary. These are...
View ArticleWater Gardener
The energy and dedication it takes to maintain a public garden is Herculean, perhaps even Sisyphian in nature.This was brought graphically home to me watching the water gardener at Longwood. I watched...
View ArticleBy Chance — the fortuitous or incalculable element in existence
Since mid-July I've had many opportunities to ruminate on the concept of chance.By chance, I refer specifically to that described in the Merrian-Webster as:1 a: something that happens unpredictably...
View ArticleDragonfly
Since dragonflies seem to be so popular, I wanted to share this very detailed picture taken a few years ago on the asphalt driveway to my home. Actual size of this dragonfly is about 4 to 5 inches. A...
View ArticleThe Queen of the Meadows
This post is specifically so I can convince the world (and Katarina in Sweden in particular. See her Roses and Stuff blog listed in my Virtual Relatives list.) to include if at all possible the wild...
View ArticleIn Praise of Volunteers or The Kindness of Strangers
For me August is the month to look back over the garden and decide what worked and which gardening approaches and assumptions need revision. A gardener's equivalent of making your New Year's...
View ArticleThe last Coca-Cola! or you never know anymore who will visit.
Went out on this Indian Summer day in September to check out the honeybee situation in my garden. Marta had pointed out the the sedums blooming in my garden where one of the last Coca-Colas available...
View ArticleGod is in the details: Olana
Pamela and I just returned from a 3 day trip up the Hudson River ending in the town of Catskill. While there we visited the 19th century home of Frederick Church, just across the Rip Van Winkle Bridge...
View ArticleFollow the pretty green book cover
Come to my other blog if you are interest in fabric and or quilting design. Interesting things might be occurring there soon.
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