FOTD – February 21 –SOLOMON’S SEAL Solomon’s Seal was a wildflower, but I love it and I took bunches of it from the woods and planted them along the other side of my driveway. They still grow wild, but I… Read More ›
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FOTD – WILDFLOWERS
FOTD – March 1 – Wildflowers One of the really nice parts of living rurally are the wildflowers. As long as you don’t need nice neat rows, wildflowers are as decorative as any cultivar. And many of them are a… Read More ›
FROM PRIMROSE TO LITTLE BLUE FLOWERS
FOTD – Feb 28 – Those Little Blue Flowers I’ve had these flowers growing in my garden since we moved here and I never knew what they were. A few years ago, someone said “Oh, those are primroses!” Well, a… Read More ›
CEE’S CFFC: LOVING REEDS AS FLOWERS
CFFC: Reed, Read or Red Everywhere along the rivers in this valley reed and weeds wave in gentle and more powerful winds. I love the weeds and reeds. Some people plant various kinds of reeds as part of their garden, but… Read More ›
A NEARLY PERFECT WATERLILY
FOTD – February 1 – Waterlily Near the shore of the pond in Whitinsville, close to where the swans nest, there are beautiful wild waterlilies. I’m told that waterlilies are one of the favorite snack food of moose, that they will… Read More ›
BUTTERCUPS BY THE RIVER
Dreaming of Buttercups It was a warm day down by the river and the grass was full of wildflowers. Buttercups were everywhere along with violets.
FOTD – DANDY LIONS
FOTD – December 28 – Dandelion Dandelions, the flower ever suburban homeowner is trying to eradicate. I have a secret fondness for dandelions. They were the first flowers I ever met “in the wild.” I learned to make necklaces from dandelions…. Read More ›
FOTD: A GALLERY OF IRIS AND OTHER SPRING FLOWERS
FOTD – December 26 – Bearded Iris With Other Spring Flowers It seems a long time ago, but we used to grow irises. When the garden was young — and I was younger — we had all kinds of flowers…. Read More ›
WHITE OR CREAM – COLORS DU JOUR
CFFC: White or Cream Color I don’t even know where to start. There is so much white or off-white in my world. But here is a taste of so many!
THE PINK AND THE YELLOW – CEE’S FUN FOTO CHALLENGE
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Pink and Yellow Flowers and birds, birds and flowers … and maybe a car or a plow. The Goldfinch, in summer, are brilliant yellow and even in the middle of a drought, we had bushels of… Read More ›
VACATION MEMORIES: MAINE, VERMONT AND COOPERSTOWN
A Photo a Week Challenge: Vacation Memories Our honeymoon was in Ireland and that was definitely our most memorable vacation. But I don’t have much in the way of pictures from those weeks on the Emerald Isle … and it really… Read More ›
QUEEN ANNE’S LACE – Marilyn Armstrong
FOTD – July 8 – QUEEN ANNE’S LACE This wildflower pops up in various parts of our property from time to time. It’s naturalized in the U.S. and Australia, wild all over Europe and parts of Asia. It doesn’t grow… Read More ›